Timothy John (Tim) Berners-Lee

He was a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet.

Berners-Lee served as director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversaw the Web's continued development. He was also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and served as a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

He was a director of The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. In April 2009, Berners-Lee was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C.