MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science


"As We May Think" --

A Celebration of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Vision,
An Examination of What Has Been Accomplished,
and What Remains to Be Done

Thursday, October 12 - Friday, October 13, 1995

Biography

Tim Berners-Lee

A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim is with the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs the W3 Consortium which coordinates W3 development.

With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he created the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory.

Before coming to CERN, Tim was a founding director of Image Computer Systems, and before that a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications, in Poole, England.

Tim is married to Nancy Carlson. They have two children, born 1991 and 1994.


To the symposium Agenda.
To MIT EECS home page. Your comments are welcome. Rev. PP Oct 2, 1995.