| Notes | EMAIL timbl@w3.org PHONE 253-5702 ROOM 32-G524 A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim directs the W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to realize the full potential of the Web. With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. While working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web browser and server in 1990. Before coming to CERN, Tim worked with Image Computer Systems, of Ferndown, Dorset, England and before that a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications, in Poole, England. RESEARCH AREAS Computer Architecture IMPACT AREAS Big Data Cybersecurity Education Energy Entertainment Health Care Internet of Things Wireless PROJECTS PROJECT Solid: Social Linked Data Decentralized Information Group Cognitive AI Community of Research Computing & Society Community of Research Solid aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy. default headshot Berners-Lee Kagal-headshot GROUPS COMMUNITY OF RESEARCH Computing & Society Community of Research This community is interested in understanding and affecting the interaction between computing systems and society through engineering, computer science and public policy research, education, and public engagement. Lead Daniel Weitzner Abelson Berners-Lee Brewer-headshot +8 Weitzner RESEARCH GROUP Decentralized Information Group We are investigating decentralized technologies that affect social change. Lead Lalana Kagal Tim Berners-Lee default headshot Vaikkunth default headshot +5 Kagal-headshot Berners-Lee RESEARCH GROUP World Wide Web Consortium Led by Web inventor and Director, Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeff Jaffe, the W3C focus is on leading the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing standards, protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web Lead Tim Berners-Lee Jeffrey Jaffe Judy Brewer |