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"
                                                           -TimBL
"You affect the world by what you browse."
                                                          -TimBL

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