assie's Diaryland Diary

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World Wide Web!

This afternoon, cikgu Material ku yg fanat rugby asked us : Do you know who Tim Berners-Lee is? Aku yg dok depan skalik dalam kelas(bersebelahan bugs) beriye cakap : Nooo.. Pastuh dengar Han dari belakang cakap No gaks. Then he said, "He is the one who invented World Wide Web!" Pastuh dy bebel bla2 WWW developed kat 2 labs, one in German and another one in France by this guy.

"Now you can boast to all your friends that Tim Berners is in your University!" Whoaaaa. Aku slalu laa kagum ngan org2 bijak pandai yg ade kat ECS tuh. Terase kerdil sungguh diri ini. Huhu. Tapi kalau nak compare diri ni ngan Allah, hmm, tak terkata rasenyeh. Whatever it is, aku rase la, one thing to remember, kita pandai ke, kite kureng sikit ke, sumehnye datang dari Allah, kalau kita complain banyak sangat, maknenyeh in other words kita complain laa aper yg Allah dah tetapkan pd kita. All we need to do is, work really hard(and smart!), pray really hard and have faith in Allah. I-Allah everything will fall into the right place at the right time. Bersangka baiklah dengan Allah :)

Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web inventor, to join ECS

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is to take up a Chair of Computer Science at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science.

He will hold this position alongside his current appointments as Senior Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

'We are delighted that Tim Berners-Lee has accepted this appointment, said Professor Wendy Hall, Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science. Many of the staff in the School have worked with him on the development of the World Wide Web over many years, and we are now closely involved with the evolution of the Semantic Web, which is Tims vision for the future of the Web.

Tims appointment is a fantastic boost to our work here in Southampton, said Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Director of the Advanced Knowledge Technologies Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration, the UKs largest Semantic Web project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. It also enables us to deepen our involvement with both US and European initiatives in this area.

The Semantic Web has been described by Tim Berners-Lee as an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in co-operation. The Semantic Web provides a common framework which allows data to be shared and reused across applications, enterprises, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners.

With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva. Since 1994 he has been based at MIT, directing the W3 Consortium, the standard-setting body which develops common protocols to realize the full potential of the Web. In 1999 he was named by Time Magazine as one of the top 20 scientists and thinkers of the twentieth century: From the thousands of interconnected threads of the Internet, he wove the World Wide Web and created a mass medium for the twenty-first century.

In 1996 the University of Southampton was the first university to award Tim Berners-Lee an honorary degree in recognition of his role in developing the World Wide Web. In 2003 he was awarded a knighthood for his pioneering work on global communications.

Through his vision in inventing and developing the Web and ensuring that it is freely available and accessible for all, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has transformed all aspects of our world, said Professor Bill Wakeham, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton. I very much look forward to welcoming him to Southampton as a member of our School of Electronics and Computer Science, and to the significant and substantial collaborations that will follow as a result of his appointment.

11:15 p.m. - 2004-12-07

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