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  1. api.ning.com/ tim_berners_lee • connecting_the_world matt_granger tie_532

  2. biographical_information • Born: London, England, 8 June 1955 • Parents met while building first commercially sold computer • Built pretend computers from  cardboard boxes • Graduated Queen's College, Oxford, 1976 BA Physics http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/images/2008/07/09/sir_tim_bernerslee.jpg

  3. biographical_information • June -Dec, 1980 software engineer consultant at CERN • 1984 took a fellowship at CERN • 1989 proposed "World Wide Web" as global hypertext project • 1990 wrote the first server  and client software • 1991-1993 continued development of WWW based on feedback from users http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/mar2009/8/4/image-3-for-history-of-web-4-gallery-802369449.jpg

  4. major_accomplishments World's first web server NeXT Box • Invented the World Wide Web • Initial specs of URL, HTML, and HTTP • Founder of W3 Consortium (W3C) which coordinates global web developments and standards • Knew that for the Web to thrive it had to remain open so he never patented any of it http://www.craphound.com/images/800px-FirstWebServer.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2415/2251820987_343559b717.jpg

  5. major_publications • too many to list • written numerous papers on web architecture, web standards, and the future of the web • Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti, Weaving the Web : The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor, Harper San Francisco, 1999 http://images.amazon.com/images/P/006251587X.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

  6. long-term-significance • Made the internet available to all--even my grandma • Growth of e-commerce will continue to boom • connects consumers with products opening the e-commerce arena for anyone • ebay • amazon • multiple sources of information/data will be able to connect with one another to make the web more powerful (semantic web)

  7. http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ significance_to_education • Opens the walls of the classroom to the world • streaming video on demand • learning is truly 24/7 • learning resources that appeal to the learning styles of most students available when they want them, where they want them • Allows students to connect to experts • Allows students to connect to peers • Provides a world wide, authentic audience for student work • widened the digital divide

  8. three_remaining_questions • Will Google control the world? • When will the semantic web really take off? • What will web 4.0 be?

  9. glossary CERN http hypertext semantic web W3 Consortium (W3C)

  10. references • Quittner, Joshua,The TIME 100, March, 29, 1999 http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/bernerslee.html • Tim Berners-Lee Official Webpage  at W3 Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Overview.html • Bertil C Lindberg , Consultant, http://home.earthlink.net/~lindberg_b/index.html • Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila, The Semantic Web , Scientific American Online  http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web

  11. CERN The European Particle Physics Laboratory located on the border between France and Switzerland near Geneva. Where TBL worked when he devised the WWW. Back

  12. http hyper text transmission protocol- A computer transmission protocol first developed by TBL as part of the original design of the Web. It is used to transfer information across the Net.  Back

  13. hyper text text that acts as a link to another part of the document, another document on the same computer, or another document on another computer. First devised by Vanevar Bush and Ted Nelson. Back

  14. http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/w3c_semantic_web_stack.jpg semantic_web An extension to the current web. Some call it web 3.0. This allows computers to understand (semantics=meaning) information in webpages and data so it can serve up related information. Back

  15. http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/keys.jpg w3_consortium (W3C) Founded by Burners-Lee in 1994, of which he is still the Director. "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding." From w3c.org homepage Back

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