Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Famous researcher/scientist/Inventor in the Technology World
In This blog post we will stay in the field of technology but putting Information Security aside for a bit. I will introduce a person who has had a huge impact in the world of Information Technology , Computer Science and the whole world in general. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, was born in London, England in 1955. TimBL is a computer scientist, and his biggest achievement is the invention of the World Wide Web, or “www” in the beginning of every URL. His proposal was made in 1989 which was when he first implemented the first communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet. TimBL is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which supervises the Web’s development, the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and also a senior researcher and holder of the Founder’s Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(CSAIL). In 2004, TimBL was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his work, and in 2009 he was elected a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Berners-Lee’s impact in the world of technology and communications and the society in general has been one of the greatest of all time. We can all agree that without the Internet and its wonderful communications network we wouldn’t be where we are now with technology. It is the Internet which facilitates our ability to communicate instantaneously with each other using a cell phone, a computer, or anything that has the capability of connecting to the Internet and sending and receiving signals. In conclusion, along with the invention of the telephone, computer, and cell phone, this is probably one of the greatest inventions of the century. During the 2012 summer Olympics opening ceremony, TimBL was honored as the “inventor of the World Wide Web”. tim_berners_lee's TED talks
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It is fascinating how more people know the joke that Al Gore invented the Internet rather than the person who actually invented the Internet. I believe the reason that TimBL is not as well known is because the Internet has had many stages of development and he invented the most significant, recent iteration. If I can recall correctly the earliest form of the Internet was the ARPANET, which was conceived, in the late 1960’s and further forms of the Internet were completed after that. The point that I’m trying to make is that I think the only inventors people remember are the inventors who made the first invention and no other invention followed. I’m sorry that this comment is pretty off topic, just on my mind.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that even though almost everyone in the world would use internet in some ways and the internet usage is wide spread all across the world, that people still barely knows what is really a world wide web, how it works, and who originally brought this idea to the world. When people mention internet, it feels like we have been using it for a long time now but it is rather a young technology and still under rapid development. It's really hard for me now to imagine a world without such convenience.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that even though almost everyone in the world would use internet in some ways and the internet usage is wide spread all across the world, that people still barely knows what is really a world wide web, how it works, and who originally brought this idea to the world. When people mention internet, it feels like we have been using it for a long time now but it is rather a young technology and still under rapid development. It's really hard for me now to imagine a world without such convenience.
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