When Berners-Lee created the web, it was a decentralized platform. Anyone could publish a website and link to any other site. But as the web has grown from an obscure research-sharing tool for the ...

On March 12, 1989, computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee submitted a simple idea to his colleagues at the European nuclear research lab CERN: to build a networked hypertext system that would manage ...

Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web, says AI developers have a responsibility to ...

Berners-Lee is the mastermind behind a project called Solid, which gives a person the ability to log into something with their own personal ID via a "Pod," where you can store your private data ...

Berners-Lee eventually convinced CERN to release the World Wide Web into the public domain without any patents or fees. He has since attributed the runaway success of the web to that single decision.

Berners-Lee wasn't out to change the world. He simply wanted to create an easy way to share information at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, popularly known as CERN.His solution was ...

Berners-Lee is working on a new data-sharing standard, Solid, to deliver on his Web 3.0 vision, and a company, Inrupt, to commercialize it.

Tim Berners-Lee has a radical proposition. Instead of leaving our online data vulnerable to harvesting by large tech platforms and governments, we should control it.

But Berners-Lee didn’t take to the Web Summit stage simply to scoff at Web3. He was there to talk about Solid, his own open-source gambit to reinvent the web through new decentralized, privacy ...

The internet has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web in 1989. Now, with his startup Inrupt, he believes it’s time for us to reclaim our personal data.

Forward-looking: Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for the World Wide Web on March 12, 1989, while working as a scientist at CERN. The invention would change the course of human history.

Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web, says AI developers have a responsibility to ensure artificial intelligence tools work for users, ...