http://news.mit.edu/2017/tim-berners-lee-wins-turing-award-0404
Tim Berners-Lee changed the world forever when he invented the Wold Wide Web along with the tools and protocols that made everyday use of the web practical. This article discusses Tim Berners-Lee's tremendous accomplishments as he receives the A.M. Turing Award.
From the article:
“In its announcement today, ACM cited Berners-Lee for “inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the web to scale.” This year marks the 50th anniversary of the award.
A principal investigator at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Berners-Lee conceived of the web in 1989 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) as a way to allow scientists around the world to share information with each other on the internet. He introduced a naming scheme (URIs), a communications protocol (HTTP), and a language for creating webpages (HTML). His open-source approach to coding the first browser and server is often credited with helping catalyzing the web’s rapid growth.”