A class presentation on Tim Berners Lee, who invented World Wide Web.

1. Tim Berners Lee
Timothy John Berners Lee
aka
Qurat Ul Ain Saleem

2. 2

3. Biography
 Born on: June 8, 1955 in London, England.
 Both of his parents was mathematicians who were employed together on the team that built the
Manchester Mark I, one of the earliest computers.
 His parents (Conway Burners-Lee, Mary Lee Woods) are both computer geeks therefore they thought him
a lot about math's and how computers operates.
 Tim attend Sheen Mount Primary School (which has dedicated a new hall in his honor).
 He attend Emanuel School in Wands worth where he studied his O-Levels and A-Levels.
 The Queen's College, Oxford where he played table tennis for Oxford.
 While at Queen's, he built a computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old
television.
 In 1976, he graduated from Oxford with a degree in Physics.
3

4. First Invention tools
These are the tools Tim used to built his first computer.
Left is a TTL
In between is a soldering iron.
Right is a old TV.
4

5. Professional Life
 After graduation (1976), he worked at Plessey Controls Limited in Poole as a
programmer,
 In 1978, he worked at D.G. Nash Limited (also in Poole) where he wrote
typesetting software and an operating system, and a multitasking operating
system.
 A year and a half spent as an independent consultant included a six month stint
(Jun-Dec 1980) as consultant software engineer at CERN.
He wrote his first program for storing information including using random
associations,
Named "Enquire" and never published,
this program formed the conceptual basis for the future development of the World
Wide Web.
5

6. Cont.
 From 1981 until 1984, Tim worked at John Poole's Image Computer Systems Ltd, with
technical design responsibility.
 In 1989, he made his history by creating global hypertext project aka World Wide Web.
 He wrote the first World Wide Web server, "httpd", and the first client, "WorldWideWeb”
which ran through next step environment.
 In 1991, during summer time his invention “World Wide Web” got extremely popular.
 In 1994, Tim founded the World Wide Web Consortium at the then Laboratory for
Computer Science (LCS), Since then he is the Director of the World Wide Web
Consortium.
 W3C is a Web standards organization which develops interoperable technologies
(specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.
6

7. Cont.
 In 1999, he became the first holder of 3Com Founders chair at MIT.
 In 2008, he founded and became Director of the World Wide Web
Foundation. The Web Foundation is a non-profit organization.
 In June 2009, then Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that he
would work with the UK Government to help make data more open and
accessible on the Web.
 In 2011, he was named to the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation,
He is President of the UK's Open Data Institute which was formed in 2012
to catalyze open data for economic, environmental, and social value.
7

8. Activities
 Invented the World Wide Web,
 HTML, HTTP and URI specifications, in 1990.
 International World Wide Web Conference Steering Committee (1994 - present) and
Program Committees
 (1993, 1994, 1995)
 World Economic Forum, invited sessions, 1997 and 1998, Davos, Switzerland.
 Congressional Internet Caucus Speakers Series, speech to members of Congress on the
Semantic Web, the social implications of the use of the internet, June 2001.
 Radio and TV appearances to explain technologies and the Web,
 Board of Advisors, "Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide
Web" journal (2002 -- present)
 Strategic Advisory Board, Garlik Limited, (2006-present)
8

9. Relation to Linked Data
The linked data community in all its diversity draws inspiration from
the thoughts of the web inventor Tim Berners Lee.
The realization was
It is not the cables, it is the computers which are interesting.
It is not the computer but the documents which are interesting.
It is not the documents which a re interesting it is the things they are
about which is important.
9

10. Research Gate Profile
Tim Berners-Lee
Retrieved results: 47 research work, including conference papers
and articles
10

11. Article’s coverage
Before 2000, the focus remain
 World Wide Web
 Programming, Infrastructure
“Few Studies”
World-Wide Web: Information Universe
The World Wide Web
WWW: Past, Present, and Future
The integration of VAX and VALET-plus data
acquisition software
Software support for the CERN Host Interface
After 2000, the focus was
 Semantic Web
“Few Studies”
Publishing on the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web
Integrating Applications on the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web Revisited
11

12. Linked Data
In 2010, Tim proposed a
5 star deployment scheme
12

13. Linked Data
Tim also identified four rules of creation of Linked Data:
 Use URIs to identify things
 Use HTTP URIs so that these things can be looked up by people
 When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information using the
standards (RDF,SPARQL)
 Includes links to other URIs, so that they can discover more things
“The more the data are linked, the more they can be used for
enrichment” 13

14. Research Gate
14

15. Achievement
15

16. Citation
16

17. Most Cited Works
Citation Year Title
21078 2001 The semantic web
4275 2009 Linked data-the story so far
4086 2000 Weaving the Web: The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide
Web by its inventor
991 2010 World-wide web: The information universe
870 2001 Publishing on the semantic web
17

18. Book Authored
Berners-Lee, T., Fischetti, M., & Foreword By-Dertouzos, M. L. (2000). Weaving the Web: The original design and
ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor. HarperInformation.
This book is written to address the questions most people
ask - From "What were you thinking when you invented it?"
through "So what do you think of it now?" to "Where is this
all going to take us?", this is the story, not a technical book.
18

19. Contributions
 Tim Berners-Lee, Chapter 30: “Realizing the potential of the Web”, Web-Weaving by Peter
Lloyd and Paula Boyle, Butterworth-Heinemann, United Kingdom, 1998.
 Weitzner, Hendler, Berners-Lee, Connolly, chapter, “Creating the Policy-Aware Web:
Discretionary, Rules-based Access for the World Wide Web”, Web And Information Security,
IRM Press, October 17, 2005
 Tim-Berners Lee, Wendy Hall, James A. Hendler, Kieron O'Hara, Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel J.
Weitzner, “A Framework for Web Science”, Foundations and Trends in Web Science, ISBN: 1-
933019-33-6 144 pp, September 2006
 Tim Berners-Lee, wrote forward: VRML Browsing & Building Cyberspace by Mark Pesce, New
Riders , 1995.
 Tim Berners-Lee, forward: Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its
Full Potential by Dieter Fensel (Editor), Wolfgang Wahlster, Henry Lieberman, James Hendler,
MIT Press, 2002
19

20. Internal Reports/ Blog
 13 reports and internal Memoranda
Based at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
the Decentralized Information Group is led by Tim Berners-Lee and
Lalana Kagal.
 DIG's work is closely coordinated with the activities of the World Wide
Web Consortium, the international standards-setting organization for
the Web.
20

21. 21

22. W3C
“World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)”
It is an international community where Member organizations, a
full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web
standards. Led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and CEO
Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full
potential.
22

23. 23

24. Web Links & References
 https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Publications.html
 http://www.biographyonline.net/business/tim-berners-lee.html
 https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/
 https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
 http://www.wired.co.uk/article/tim-berners-lee
 https://www.w3.org/Consortium/
 http://dig.csail.mit.edu/projects.html
 Guerrini, M., & Possemato, T. (2013). Linked data: a new alphabet for the semantic
web. JLIS. it, 4(1), 67.
 Publications. (n.d.). Retrieved April 06, 2017, from https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-
Lee/Publications.html
24