Turing award goes to Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berner-Lee (an English computer scientist), The Inventor of World Wide Web(WWW) wins the #Turing_Award last year on today for his invention of Web,Web browser,Protocols and Algorithms. Number of awards and honors he received till date are 51* and were awarded by different honorable persons i.e from Quin Elizabeth to UNESCO. He is member of: - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), - World Wide Web Foundation, - Founders chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). - Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), - MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. - Ford Foundation Quotes by Timothy Berners-Lee: "The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past" ...