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      <th><p align="left">Contents</p>
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      <th><p align="left">See also</p>
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      <td><img src="../../Press/Stock/Berners-Lee/2001-europaeum-eighth.jpg"
        height="166" width="252" alt="Tim BL" /><br />
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      <td><a href="#Bio">Short bio</a><br />
        <a href="#Before">Before you mail me</a><br />
        <a href="#Address">Address</a><br />
        <a href="Overview.html#Talks">Talks, articles etc</a><br />
        <a href="#Speaking">Speaking engagements</a><br />
        <a href="#Press">Press interviews</a></td>
      <td><a href="Longer.html">Longer Bio</a><br />
        <a href="Research.html">Research at MIT-CSAIL</a><br />
        <a
        href="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=All+past+and+future+talks+*&amp;event=None&amp;activity=None&amp;name=Tim+Berners-Lee&amp;country=None&amp;language=None&amp;office=None&amp;sortInverse=yes&amp;submit=Submit">Talks</a><br
        />
        <a href="../../DesignIssues">Design Issues: web architecture</a><br />
        <a href="/">World Wide Web Consortium<br />
        </a> <a href="FAQ.html">Frequently Asked Questions</a><br />
        <a href="Kids.html">Kids' Questions</a><br />
        <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4">blog</a><br />
        <a href="Weaving/Overview.html">Weaving the Web - the book</a></td>
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<p><a href="card#i" title="Data about me"><img src="images/rdf-flyer-24.gif"
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<h1>Tim Berners-Lee</h1>

<h2><a name="Bio" id="Bio">Bio</a></h2>

<p>A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented
the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global
information sharing while at <a href="http://www.cern.ch/">CERN</a>, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He
wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP
and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.</p>

<p>He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of
Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence (
<a href="http://csail.mit.edu/">CSAIL</a>) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(<a href="http://web.mit.edu/">MIT</a>) where he also heads the
<a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/">Decentralized Information Group (DIG)</a>. He is also
a Professor in the <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk">Electronics and Computer Science Department</a> at the University of
Southampton, UK.</p>

<p>He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (<a
href="http://www.w3.org">W3C</a>), a Web standards organization founded in 1994
which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines,
software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He is a founding Director
of the Web Science Trust (<a
href="http://webscience.org/">WST</a>) launched in 2009 to promote
research and education in Web Science, the multidisciplinary study of humanity connected by technology.
</p>

<p>Tim is a Director of the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/">World Wide Web
Foundation</a>, launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the
potential of the Web to benefit humanity.</p>

<p>He has promoted open government data globally and is a member of the
UK's Transparency Board.</p>
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<p>In 2001 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has been the recipient
of several international awards including the Japan Prize, the Prince of
Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany's Die
Quadriga award. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 he
was awarded the Order of Merit. In 2009 he was elected a foreign associate of
the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of "<a
href="Weaving/Overview.html">Weaving the Web</a>". </p>
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<p>(<a href="Longer.html">Longer bio</a>)</p>

<h2><a name="Before" id="Before">Before you mail me</a></h2>
<ul>
  <li>If you need someone to find something for you about some arbitrary
    subject (travel agents, or parakeets or whatever), don't ask me, but try
    the <a href="http://vlib.org/">Virtual Library</a> for example, or your
    favorite search engine.</li>
  <li>If you want to know how to run a server, or how to edit HTML, check the
    <a href="/">W3C web</a> or your local bookstore. I'm sorry I can't answer
    individual requests for help.</li>
  <li>If you can't access something on <tt>www.w3.org</tt> , you find bad links
    from www.w3.org pages, or errors in the hypertext please see the <a
    href="../../Help/Webmaster.html">webmaster's documentation</a>..</li>
  <li>If you are doing homework or a school project on the history of the Web
    then please check my <a href="Kids">Kid's questions</a>, or the more
    general <a href="FAQ">Frequently Asked Questions</a>; and also,
    <!-- by other people:
    <a href="http://www.boutell.com/faq/">Web FAQ</a>,
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    <a
    href="../../Consortium/Prospectus/FAQ.html">W3C FAQ</a>, or <a
    href="FAQ.html">my press FAQ</a> as almost everything I have is there or
    linked from this page. I am sorry I cannot help with individual
  projects.</li>
  <li>If you are a member of the press and need clarification or an interview,
    please mail <a href="mailto:w3t-pr@w3.org">w3t-pr@w3.org</a> (and Cc me)
    with details.</li>
  <li>If it is about a possible speaking engagement, see <a
    href="#Speaking">below</a>.</li>
</ul>

<p>If you have a serious comment on things I have signed, then do email me. I
am also always open to discussion with W3C Advisory Committee
representatives.</p>

<h2>What not to email</h2>

<p>Email is safe unless it contains programs. (Data and documents are fine,
programs are not). If you send me a program, I will not run it, as it could
damage my system and could be a virus.</p>
<ul>
  <li>Note: Documents for Microsoft word, Excel, and possibly other Office
    programs tend to execute programs (scripts) in what you would expect to be
    harmless documents. These can expose my machine to viruses, because these
    programs do not (it seems) prevent scripts from running within a document
    when it received by email. Please do not send me Microsoft Office
  documents.</li>
  <li>If you are sending text, please send it as plain text, HTML, of necessary PDF. If you use
    your favorite word process, slide tool, etc, and send it in that program's
    format, then you are forcing me install proprietary software on whatever
    machine I read them on. </li>
    <!--
  <li>If your email is sent from Microsoft Outlook, and contains an attachment,
    I will be more likely to discard it as I understand that a famous series of
    viruses in 2001 resulted from Outlook's tendency to execute scripts in
    email, and used up a huge amount of my and my colleague's time.</li>
    -->
</ul>

<h2>What you can email</h2>
<ul>
  <li>These are all good document standards: Plain text messages, HTML
    (sometimes called rich text) pages without scripts, Photos (JPEG files,
    PNG, GIF and SVG), PDF, SMIL, RDF/XML, N3 and so on. All these can be sent as messages or
    as attachments to messages. I can read them with a variety of software
    programs, and they cannot contain viruses, unless there is a serious bug in
    the code I use to read them. If you don't need anything else, then use
    plain text.</li>
</ul>

<p>These are good rules when emailing anyone.</p>

<p>Please use my full name in the "To" line with my email address, as this will
make your message look less like spam. This will happen automatically if you
have me in your address book. If you just type in my email address, I probably
won't see your mail.</p>

<h2><a name="Address" id="Address">Address</a></h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/node/95">Directions</a></li>
</ul>
<dl>
  <dt>Email</dt>
    <dd>timbl @ w3.org</dd>
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    <dd>4D4B 9D1D C032 0710 3CDC DE0B 344D 9666 1177 9EE7</dd>
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  <dt>Address</dt>
    <dd>32 Vassar Street<br />
      MIT Room 32-G524<br />
      Cambridge MA 02139<br />
      USA</dd>
  <dt>Latitude</dt>
    <dd>N 42.3633690</dd>
  <dt>Longitude</dt>
    <dd>W 71.091796</dd>
  <dt>Phone</dt>
    <dd>+1 (617) 253 5702</dd>
  <dt>Fax:</dt>
    <dd>+1 (617) 258 5999</dd>
</dl>

<h2><a name="Talks" id="Talks">Talks, articles, etc</a></h2>

<p>If you want to know what we are working on now, look at the <a
href="../../Overview.html">W3C site</a> and check out all the activities at
W3C. Also see:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="../../DesignIssues"><em>Design Issues:</em> Technical and
    philosophical notes on web architecture</a> An occasional series of notes
    about how the web actually works and how to design new technology.</li>
  <li>For a list of past talks, see: <a
    href="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=All+past+and+future+talks+*&amp;event=None&amp;activity1=None&amp;name=Tim+Berners-Lee&amp;country=None&amp;language=None&amp;office=None&amp;sortInverse=yes&amp;submit=Submit">Presentations</a>
    via the W3C Presentations system or <a
    href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Talks.html">an extensive
    list</a> in HTML. </li>
  <li><a href="Disclosures.html">Disclosures</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../History.html">History of the web: some pointers</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Essays and articles in text form</p>
<ul>
  <li><a
href="../../2009/Talks/0204-ted-tbl/">"Linked Data" (slides)</a> at the <a
href="http://conferences.ted.com/TED2009/">TED 2009 conference</a>, "The Great
Unveiling" in Long Beach, CA, USA, 4 February 2009.
</li>
  <li><a
    href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/03/01-ushouse-future-of-the-web.html"><em>The
    Future of the Web.</em></a> Testimony before the United States House of
    Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on
    Telecommunications and the Internet. (2007-03-01)</li>
  <li><a href="../../2007/Talks/0222-3gsm-tbl/text"><em>The Mobile Web</em></a>
    Keynote, 3GSM Barcelona, (2007-02-22) </li>
  <li><a href="../../2004/Talks/0914-tbl-speech/text"><em>Speech and the
    Future</em></a> Keynote, SpeechTek New York, (2004-09-14) </li>
  <li><a href="/2003/10/27-rogan.html">Comment on the '906 patent</a> (2003)
  <li><a href="../../2002/04/Japan/Lecture.html">Japan Prize commemorative
    lecture</a> on the universality of the Web (2002)</li>
  <li><a href="2001/MLD">Michael Dertouzos R.I.P. (2001-08-27)</a></li>
  <li><a href="/1999/07/dms.html">D.M.Sendall. R.I.P. July 15 1999</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../1999/04/13-tbl.html">The future of the Web - LCS 35th
    anniversary talk transcript</a></li>
  <li><a href="UU.html">WWW, UU and I - Unitarian Universalism and the Web</a>
    (1998/4)</li>
  <li><a href="ShortHistory.html">A one-page personal history of the web</a>
    (1998/5/7)</li>
  <li><a href="../../1998/02/Potential.html">Realizing the full potential of
    the web</a> (1997/12/3)</li>
  <li><em><a
    href="http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/260000/253704/p57-berners-lee.pdf?key1=253704&amp;key2=2686134711&amp;coll=GUIDE&amp;dl=GUIDE&amp;CFID=13991775&amp;CFTOKEN=52899240">World-Wide
    Computer</a></em> Communications of the ACM, February 1997, Vol. 40 No 2.
  </li>
  <li><a href="1996/ppf.html">The web: Past, Present and Future (1996)</a></li>
  <li><a href="1996/EUUS.html">The Web; Europe and the US; Harmony and
    Diversity</a> (1996)</li>
  <li><a href="../../Talks/9510_Bush/Talk.html">Hypertext and Our Collective
    Destiny</a> , (1995)</li>
  <li><a href="9602affi.html">Presentation to CDA challenge by CDT et al</a> ,
    28 Feb 1996</li>
  <li><a href="../../History/1989/proposal.html">Original proposal for a global
    hypertext project at CERN</a> (1989)</li>
</ul>

<h2><a name="Speaking" id="Speaking">Speaking Engagements</a></h2>

<p>I do a limited amount of speaking. If you have something
 you think I would be interested in speaking at, please send
email to <a href="mailto:timbl+speaking@w3.org">timbl+speaking@w3.org</a> with
details of the event, projected audience size and profile, location and date.
Events outside the USA are all handled by <a href="http://www.speakers.co.uk/our-speakers/profile/Tim_Berners-Lee">CSA</a>.
(Please do not contact mutual friends or family to ask for a favor for your
company, as that puts unfair pressure on everyone. Just ask directly.)
</p>
<p>
Please use an email subject like say "Keynote in Milan, 23 Febrary 2100 at ISWC2100" including
the date and place proposed.
</p>

<h3><a name="Requiremen" id="Requiremen">AV Requirements</a></h3>

<p>If I use slides (I often do not) I use a laptop -- currently a Mac running
OSX. I do not need audio from the laptop.</p>

<p>If you want to test your video on similar stuff, run a web browser on a
recent one of my <a href="../../Talks/">previous talks</a>.</p>

<h2><a name="Press" id="Press">Press: - Interviews and material</a></h2>

<p>If you need a photo for publication, please complete the <a
href="/2002/09/wbs/1/photo/">W3C photo request form</a>. You do not need an
account to complete the form, but an email address is required.</p>

<p>Alternatively, you can ask:</p>
<ul>
  <li>The press office at CERN (+41 22 767 6111)</li>
  <li>W3C's Communications Team +1 617 253 2613</li>
</ul>

<p>If you need an <b>interview</b> for an article, please check the</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.boutell.com/faq/">Web FAQ</a> ,</li>
  <li><a href="../../Consortium/Prospectus/FAQ.html">W3 Consortium FAQ</a></li>
  <li><a href="FAQ.html">my press FAQ</a></li>
</ul>

<p>first, then please use email rather than phone. Please contact <a
href="mailto:w3t-pr@w3.org">w3t-pr@w3.org</a> the general PR request line at
W3C, rather than <a href="mailto:amy@w3.org">Amy van der Hiel</a> (my
assistant) or <a href="mailto:ij@w3.org">Ian Jacobs</a> (Head of Communications
at W3C) to set up interviews with me or with other W3C staff.</p>

<p>[Photo: in Sheldonian, Oxford: LeFevre communications, 2001.]</p>
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