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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Returning As Professor to the UK

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Returning As Professor to the UK
By Jeremy Geelan
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December 4, 2004 12:00 AM EST
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Southampton University in England, the first university to award him an honorary degree (in 1996) is going to be the new base for Sir Tim Berners-Lee, "Father of the World Wide Web."

Although born in London, Sir Tim will now become chair of computer science at the university's School of Electronics and Computer Science.

He will remain director of W3C, and will use his new position as the springboard for further development of the Semantic Web, his vision for the next-generation Internet.

"Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee" - what next, a peerage? (Lord Berners-Lee has a ring to it, wouldn't you say?)

Published December 4, 2004 – Reads 17,755
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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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j lysaght 12/04/04 06:33:08 PM EST

Tim Berners-Lee this man opened the the door to true free speach
semantic web 12/04/04 07:09:40 AM EST

Who actually leads the semantic web initiative, is it W3C or is it Southampton University, or is it TBL personally?