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Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Honorary Doctor

To coincide with the investiture of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web and the first web server, with an honorary doctorate, the UOC Library has prepared a round-up with direct links to university, Catalan, Spanish and other catalogues, databases and bodies linked to his career.

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Wikipedia - Sir Tim Berners-Lee link opens in a new window

Wikipedia's entry on Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Summon - Tim Berners - Lee link opens in a new window

A pre-recorded search on Summon, the search engine for the UOC Virtual Library collections.

Search in the University Union Catalogue of Catalonia link opens in a new window

Pre-recorded search for Mustapha Cherif in the University Union Catalogue of Catalonia.

Google Scholar - Tim Berners-Lee link opens in a new window

A pre-recorded search using the Google Scholar search engine which specialises in scientific information.

YouTube.com - Tim Berners-Lee link opens in a new window

A selection of videos with interviews and talks by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Webs

Tim Berners-Lee link opens in a new window

W3C's official website which includes a biography, information about his book and a question and answer section on his contributions to the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee a la revista Time link opens in a new window

In 1999, Time magazine named Sir Tim Berners-Lee as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.

Organizations and institutes

CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research link opens in a new window

The centre where Tim Berners-Lee worked as a physicist and where, in 1989, he wrote a proposal for what would later become the World Wide Web.

W3 Consortium link opens in a new window

Comprehensive information on the web. This consortium is formed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique and CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, where the web began in 1992

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory link opens in a new window

The centre where Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been a senior researcher since 1999. He forms part of the Decentralized Information Group.

School of Electronics and Computer Science - University of Southampton link opens in a new window

The centre where Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been a professor since 2004. He forms part of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Group.

Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) link opens in a new window

A joint initiative between CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and ECS (Electronics and Computer Science). Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a co-director.

British Computer Society link opens in a new window

A body that brings together IT professionals. In 1996, Sir Tim Berners-Lee was named a Distinguished Fellow of the BCS. In 2007, he received the Lovelace Medal.

IEEE/RSE Awards link opens in a new window

In 2008, Sir Tim Berners-Lee received the IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award "for conceiving and further developing the World Wide Web".