A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim is with the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs the W3 Consortium which coordinates W3 development.
With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he created the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory.
Before coming to CERN, Tim was a founding director of Image Computer Systems, and before that a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications, in Poole, England.
Tim is married to Nancy Carlson. They have two children, born 1991 and 1994. (Berners-Lee, 1995)
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