Sir Tim Berners-Lee
<html><img style=“float: left; margin: 10px;” src=“http://www.w3.org/Press/Stock/Berners-Lee/2001-europaeum-eighth.jpg” alt=“Sir Tim Berners-Lee” /></html> Sir Tim Berners-Lee (as pictured on his web site) invented the world-wide web while working at CERN during the late 1980s.
From a technical point of view, Berners-Lee's contribution was four-fold: he adapted the already existing idea of hypertext to provide a distributed information system that would work over the internet; he created the hypertext transfer protocol; the concept of a Uniform Resource Locator and the Hypertext Markup Language. He is currently director of the World Wide Web Consortium and a professor at both MIT and Southampton. He was knighted in 2003. A short biography is here.
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