英语名人堂：蒂姆·伯纳斯·李
万维网联盟(W3C)是伯纳斯·李为关注万维网发展而创办的组织，并担任万维网联盟的主席。他也是万维网基金会的创办人。伯纳斯-李还是麻省理工学院计算机科学及人工智能实验室创办主席及高级研究员。同时，伯纳斯-李是网页科学研究倡议会的总监。最后，他是麻省理工学院集体智能中心咨询委员会成员。
2004年，英女皇伊丽莎白二世向伯纳斯·李颁发大英帝国爵级司令勋章。2009年4月，他获选为美国国家科学院外籍院士。在2012年夏季奥林匹克运动会开幕典礼上，他获得了“万维网发明者”的美誉。伯纳斯·李本人也参与了开幕典礼，在一台NeXT计算机前工作。他在Twitter上发表消息说：“这是给所有人的”，体育馆内的LCD光管随即显示出文字来。
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web. He received a knighthood from the British Queen for his efforts (so he is called ‘Sir’). He is director of W3C, which looks after the Web’s development. A leading British newspaper ranked him as the world’s greatest living genius. Today’s world would be very different without his discovery.
Berners-Lee was born in 1955 to parents who were mathematicians and computer scientists. He grew up with numbers and electronics and managed to build his own computer. He went toOxford University and was banned from using the computers for hacking. Berners-Lee graduated with a degree in physics. His first jobs after graduating were as a computer programmer and software developer.
Berners-Lee spent the 1980s on a project based on sharing and updating information online. In 1991, he put the first website online. It explained what the World Wide Web was and how it was used. He gave his idea to the world for free. In 1994, Berners-Lee founded W3C to set standards and improve the quality of the Web.
Berners-Lee now spends his time between W3C and as a professor of computer science in England. He also writes about the future of the Web. In 2004, he was named as the first ever winner of theMillennium Technology Prize. He has a string of other awards and is listed as one of ‘Time’ magazine’s 100 most important people of the 20th Century.
