Timothy Berners Lee

Timothy J. Berners-Lee 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering Director, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) 3 Com Founders Researcher MacArthur Fellow As the son of two British mathematicians who both worked on the development of early computers, perhaps it is not that surprising that Tim Berners-Lee is the person credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989. As founder of the World Wide Web Foundation and as director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Professor Berners-Lee currently oversees the continued development of the web, is a senior researcher at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and was included in Time magazine’s list of the 100 greatest minds of the 20th century.