Web inventor wins top technology prize
No, not Al Gore ... lol
but:Tim Berners-Lee
but:Tim Berners-Lee
Associated Press
Thursday April 15, 2004
The MIT scientist credited with inventing the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, was today awarded the first Millennium technology prize.
The award, a ?1m (£670,000) cash prize, is among the largest of its kind. The prize committee said Mr Berners-Lee's contribution strongly embodied the spirit of the award, given "for an innovation that directly promotes people's quality of life, is based on humane values, and encourages sustainable economic development".
Mr Berners-Lee is credited with creating the world wide web in the early 1990s while working for the Cern Laboratory, the European centre for nuclear research near Geneva, Switzerland. His graphical point-and-click browser, World Wide Web, was the first client that featured the core ideas included in today's web browsers.
Pekka Tarjanne, a professor at the Finnish Academy of Technology and chairman of the eight-member international awards committee, underlined the importance of Mr Berners-Lee's decision to never strive to commercialise or patent his contributions to the internet technologies he has developed.
The MIT scientist is the first recipient of the prize, which is administered by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation, an independent fund supported by the Finnish government and a number of Finnish companies and organisations. Future prizes will be awarded every two years.
This year, 74 nominations were received for the award, which was established in 2002 and is backed by the Finnish government. Mr Berners-Lee was knighted in December last year. He is originally from Britain and continues to work at the standard-setting World Wide Web Consortium at MIT.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/new...192460,00.html
Thursday April 15, 2004
The MIT scientist credited with inventing the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, was today awarded the first Millennium technology prize.
The award, a ?1m (£670,000) cash prize, is among the largest of its kind. The prize committee said Mr Berners-Lee's contribution strongly embodied the spirit of the award, given "for an innovation that directly promotes people's quality of life, is based on humane values, and encourages sustainable economic development".
Mr Berners-Lee is credited with creating the world wide web in the early 1990s while working for the Cern Laboratory, the European centre for nuclear research near Geneva, Switzerland. His graphical point-and-click browser, World Wide Web, was the first client that featured the core ideas included in today's web browsers.
Pekka Tarjanne, a professor at the Finnish Academy of Technology and chairman of the eight-member international awards committee, underlined the importance of Mr Berners-Lee's decision to never strive to commercialise or patent his contributions to the internet technologies he has developed.
The MIT scientist is the first recipient of the prize, which is administered by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation, an independent fund supported by the Finnish government and a number of Finnish companies and organisations. Future prizes will be awarded every two years.
This year, 74 nominations were received for the award, which was established in 2002 and is backed by the Finnish government. Mr Berners-Lee was knighted in December last year. He is originally from Britain and continues to work at the standard-setting World Wide Web Consortium at MIT.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/new...192460,00.html
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