Tim Berners-Lee, British computer scientist, generally credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web. In 2004 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and received the Millennium Technology Prize from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. In 2007 he was awarded the Draper Prize by the National Academy of Engineering.
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Long ago, a huge fire erupted in a forest, and all the animals fled in terror. A wolf spotted a hummingbird flying back and forth high overhead and asked what it was doing.
The World Wide Web Consortium will become a public-interest nonprofit organization, after being hosted at MIT's Computer and Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and other academic hosts.
MIT Institute Professor Emeritus Joel Moses, who developed Macsyma, one of the first symbolic mathematics computer programs, and held numerous administrative posts, has died at 80.