An Insight, An Idea with Tim Berners-Lee | World Economic Forum - An Insight, An Idea with Tim Berners-Lee. Sir Tim Berners-Lee pays tribute to Aaron Swartz. HTML5 'turns web pages into computers': Berners-Lee. In a brief appearance on BBC, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, said that HTML5 means significant design changes for the Web as we've known it. HTML5 essentially means "every single web page out there, if you like, is like a computer," he said. "So you can program it to do whatever you want, and that's very powerful. " "When somebody designs a web page, up until now, historically, the web page was just a static document. It just had information on it.
The web has been the catalyst for a tremendous surge of innovation, Berners-Lee told BBC. The web is a liberating force, but, paradoxically, it also is a vehicle of repression as well. Similarly, at a recent speech in Sydney, he warned against government attempts to capture and store the online data of private citizens. (Thumbnail credit: W3C.org) Inventor Sir Tim Berners Lee predicts dynamic web future. Web inventor warns against data storage. Tim Berners-Lee Quotes. Le web à venir par Tim Berners-Lee. Tim Berners-Lee (timberners_lee) Tim Berners-Lee. Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS (born 8 June 1955),[1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989,[2] and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year.[3][4][5][6][7] Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development.
He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).[8] He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI),[9] and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.[10][11] Early life Career Current work Awards and honours Personal life.