The "Nobel of computers" was awarded to the creator of the Web, Tim Berners Lee

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With the AM Turing Award, which is considered the "Nobel of computers" was awarded to the creator of the World Web- the MIT professor and World Wide Web researcher, Tim Berners Lee.   The prize is accompanied by the sum of one million dollars, provided by Google. As reported by Mit News, in a related announcement it is pointed out that Berners-Lee is being honored for "inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser and the fundamental protocols and algorithms that enable the web to scale”. This year is the 50th anniversary of this award.   Senior researcher of the Computer Sciece and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) of MIT, with an additional position in the Department of Electrical Engineering- Engineering and Computer Science, Berners- Le "caught" the idea of ​​the Web 1989 at CERN, as a way for scientists around the world to share information on the Internet. Create a naming convention (URL), a communication protocol (HTTP) and a web development language (HTML). His open source approach to the first browser and server is considered to have worked as a catalyst in the rapid development of the World Wide Web.   Continue at source ...