This wave of innovation had one major catalyst the invention of the World-Wide-Web by Tim Berners-Lee.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is among those who have won the first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web, a multimedia branch of the Internet.
Others expected to attend the event include model Lily Cole and Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
In his acceptance speech, Tim Berners-Lee said the internet was still in its infancy.
Tim Berners-Lee, an exception, was a grump in his mid-30s when he invented the World Wide Web.
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Sir David and Prof Hawking finished above explorer Ranulph Fiennes, Prince Charles and world wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
Downing Street has released the names of more guests who will attend Lady Thatcher's funeral, including internet pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Data.gov.uk has been developed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the web, and Professor Nigel Shadbolt at the University of Southampton.
Dr Decker said the promise of the semantic web had spurred visionaries such as Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart and Tim Berners-Lee.
British physicist Tim Berners-Lee created and named the Web (also commonly called "W3" for short in those days) in 1989 at CERN.
The Web refers to the graphical portion of the Internet built around the hypertext-transport protocol created by physicist Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.
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Since 1990: Tim Berners-Lee completed his work on the World Wide Web.
Despite BT's claims to the contrary, Tim Berners-Lee is usually credited with inventing the global hypertext system that became the world wide web.
Its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, was determined that the web should be an open system, not a series of walled gardens controlled by governments or corporations.
On Friday, we also celebrated Sir Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently recruited Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the worldwide web, to look into opening access to more government data.
Forty years later, the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee, opened up numerous and ever-growing possibilities for economic transactions and ventures based on data.
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It also includes senior British journalists, actors and entertainers such as Shirley Bassey and a variety of other individuals of note, including World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee.
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Tim Berners-Lee, who played the greatest role in creating the World Wide Web, is now devising "the semantic web, " a kind of intelligence to rest atop his creation.
Now, as we prepare for the World Summit on the Information Society, we might spare a thought for Tim Berners-Lee, the scientist who gave us the World Wide Web.
The World Wide Web Foundation, headed by web founder Tim Berners-Lee, released a Web Readiness Index today that charts just how effectively the information superhighway has connected the world.
Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist known for inventing the world wide web, remembered Swartz as someone who wanted to change the world to make public data open to the public.
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Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited with much off the early innovation that became the web, says that we should be very concerned about the threats to the open web.
Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee used a keynote speech at the event to launch the World Wide Web Foundation, a group set up to use the web to drive social and economic change, largely in the developing world.
The web as we know it was famously invented by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN, but it wasn't until a few years later -- 1993 to be precise -- that it'd truly be set free.
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And so that Government information is accessible and useful for the widest possible group of people, I have asked Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who led the creation of the world wide web, to help us drive the opening up of access to Government data in the web over the coming months.
Created by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, the institute has announced support from the Omidyar Network and from the World Bank, to help collect evidence globally on the benefits of open data and train senior people who will lead open data initiatives in developing countries.
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