	Contents	See also
	Short bio Before you mail me Address Talks, articles &c Speaking engagements Press interviews	Longer Bio Slides from some talks Essays on web architecture Disclosure: Mainspring World Wide Web Consortium

Tim Berners-Lee

Bio

A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim is now with the Laboratory for Computer Science ( LCS)at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT). He directs the W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to realize the full potential of the Web.

With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory.

Before coming to CERN, Tim was a founding director of Image Computer Systems, and before that a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications, in Poole, England.

(Longer bio)

Before you mail me

If you need someone to find something for you about some arbitrary subject (travel agents, or parakeets or whatever), don't ask me, but try the Virtual Library for example.
If you want to know how to run a server, or how to edit HTML, check the W3C web or your local bookstore. I'm sorry I can't answer individual requests for help.
If you can't access something on www.w3.org , you find bad links from www.w3.org pages, or errors in the hypertext please see the webmaster's documentation..

If you have a serious comment on things I have signed, then do email me. I am also always open to discussion with W3C advisory committee representatives.

Address

                 Email:   timbl@w3.org
                 MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
                 545 Technology Square
                 Cambridge MA 02139
                 USA
                 Phone: +1 (617) 253 5702
                 Fax:   +1 (617) 258 5999

Talks, articles, etc

Current to historical:

Essays and articles in text form:

Realizing the full potential of the web (1997/12/3)
The web: Past, Present and Future (1996)
The Web; Europe and the US; Harmony and Diversity (1996)
Hypertext and Our Collective Destiny, (1995)
Presentation to CDA challenge by CDT et al, 28 Feb 1996

Historical bits:

Speaking Engagements

I do few of these because of pressure of work and the detrimental effects of travel. However, I do enjoy giving a keynote address. If you have something you seriously think I would be interested in speaking at, please send email to Susan Hardy with details of the event, projected audience size and profile, location and date.

AV Requirements

If I use slides (which I don't always) I use a Thinkpad 760CD projecting ideally SVGA 800x600 pixels but I can mange to provide 640x480 VGA (or even raw NTSC or PAL video but warn me first to I remember to bring the connector). I don't need audio from the laptop.

If you want to test your video on similar stuff, run a web browser on a recent one of my previous talks.

Press: - Interviews and material

If you need a photo for publication, contact:

Sally Khudairi at W3C
The MIT Press Office. +1 617 253 2700

Alternatively, the following photographers have spare pictures which they will license for press use.

The press office at CERN (+41 22 767 6111) (free)
Dorothy Greco, +1 (617) 522-6181
Hank Morgan <hmorgan@SciNetPhotos.com>, (203)325-3120

If you need an interview for an article, please check the

first, then please use email rather than phone. I suggest you contact Sally Khudairi, your contact for PR at W3C to set up interviews with me or with other W3C staff.

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