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Famed British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee has been honored repeatedly over the years for his role inventing the World Wide Spider web equally nosotros know information technology. Now, he'southward won the 2016 Turing Award, widely considered to be the Nobel Prize of computing. Just another feather in the cap of the human being who brought us instantaneous worldwide advice, endless access to information, and cat memes. Oh, so many true cat memes.

Tim Berners-Lee is responsible for developing the technologies that underlie the net to this day, including naming schemes (URIs), the HTTP communication protocol, and the HTML web page linguistic communication. These are the tools that allowed the first websites to be created in the early 1990s, making Berners-Lee the "father of the web." This piece of work built on the foundation created by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, who developed TCP/IP in the early on 1980s. For this, they're recognized as the fathers of the internet.

The Turing Honour is named for iconic British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing. The award is given by the Clan for Calculating Mechanism (ACM) every year to someone who has made major contributions to computing. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn have been honored in the past, and so it was high time Berners-Lee got his award. The Turing Award comes with a $ane million prize from Google. There will be an official award ceremony on June 24th at ACM'south annual feast.

The NeXT estimator on which Berners-Lee created the beginning web server.

Berners-Lee is currently a researcher at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). "I'chiliad humbled to receive the namesake honor of a computing pioneer who showed that what a programmer could do with a computer is express only by the developer themselves," he told MIT's news service.

Tim Berners-Lee has as well expressed concern at what'due south happening with internet regulation lately. In an interview with the BBC, Berners-Lee comes out confronting regime moves on both sides of the Atlantic. He explains Britain efforts to weaken encryption are pointless because the terrorists you lot're trying to catch could utilise the same backdoors, and they might go amend at it than you are. He also attacks the UK's new Investigatory Powers Act, which allows ISPs to spy on users and store data for police enforcement.

Likewise, he's opposed to new legislation in the US, just signed by President Trump, that allows ISPs to sell the private browsing information of users. Berners-Lee too pledges to fight efforts to kill cyberspace neutrality in the US, which seems to be next on the calendar for the FCC and Trump administration. Having created the web, he'southward naturally protective of it, I suppose.