Please join us for a special fireside CSAIL Forum, featuring Sir Tim Berners-Lee!

Speaker: Tim Berners-Lee, CSAIL Professor Emeritus; Co-founder/CTO, Inrupt; author, This is For Everyone: the Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

Venue: Live stream via Zoom: Registration required

Bio:

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Co-founder/CTO, Inrupt

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN in Switzerland. Since then, through his work with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), The Open Data Institute, the World Wide Web Foundation, the development of the Solid Protocol and now as CTO and Co-Founder of Inrupt, he has been a tireless advocate for shared standards, open web access for all and the power of individuals on the web. A firm believer in the positive power of technology, he was named in Time magazine’s list of the most important people of the 20th century. He has been the recipient of several honorary degrees and awards, including the Seoul Peace Prize and the Turing Prize widely recognised as akin to the Nobel Prize for Computing. He was knighted in 2004 and later appointed to the Order of Merit by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at MIT and Oxford.