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<title>Tim Berners-Lee</title>
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<h1>D.M. Sendall</h1>
<p>Mike Sendall, my friend and supervisor at CERN, died on Thursday July 15,
1999 after a valiant struggle with cancer. His brightness and wisdom and
great personal warmth gave very much to everyone he met. He was a wonderful
person.</p>
<p>Mike was very astute, always one to spot the flaw no one else had spotted
in a technical argument, but also posessed of a diplomacy when it came to
pointing it out.</p>
<p>He was also the English gentleman. I understood that once he had arrived
at Heathrow having forgotten his passport. When the immigration authorities
asked him how they were to believe who he was, I can imagine him replying "Ah
yes-- how indeed?" and them letting him through at once.</p>
<p>It was Mike who went along with my idea of getting one of the "NeXT"
machines, and Mike who suggested that I could go ahead and use it to play
with the idea of that global hypertext thing I had been talking about. When
Robert Cailliau and I could not figure out how to run the World Wide Web
project between the two different divisions we were in, Mike advised us how
to continue.</p>
<p>I think I remember best his quiet smile and that omnipresent twinkle in
his eye. I'll miss him.</p>
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Tim Berners-Lee
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