Tim Berners-Lee honored with first Millennium Technology Award for pioneering work on World Wide Web

Helsinki, Finland — April 15, 2004 — Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the first Web server, Web browser, and specifications for Uniform Resource Locators (URL), Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP), and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) – technologies that still today play a central role in the operation of the World Wide Web, was recognized for his groundbreaking contributions in the field and awarded the Finnish Technology Award Foundation’s Millennium Technology Prize, along with one million euros (approx 1.2M USD). The award acknowledges that Mr. Berners-Lee's outstanding technological in developing Web technologies, which have over the past several decades, helped promote quality of life and sustainable economic and societal development.

Mr. Berners-Lee first developed the core Web technologies and protocols in 1999 while working at CERN, The world's largest particle physics laboratory. He is a graduate of England's Oxford University and currently holds the 3Com Founders Chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), in Cambridge, and his background was in system design in real-time communications and text-processing software development.

At LCS he established the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1994 as a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding. The W3C develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. Since its founding, Berners-Lee has served as the consortium's director, coordinating Web development worldwide with teams at M.I.T., INRIA in France, and Keio University in Japan.

Commenting on the significance of Mr. Berners Lee's ongoing work on new World Wide Web technologies at the W3C, Carlo Innocenti, Stylus Studio's senior product architect said: "Stylus Studio's award winning XML developer tools enable software engineers to build next-generation Web applications based on new W3C XML technologies, including powerful new Web service applications which will substantially enhance interoperability and access to information on the World Wide Web."

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