Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web (USA Today Lifeline Biographies)
Matt McAlister (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The semantic web folks, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, have been saying for years that the Internet could become significantly more compelling by cooking more intelligence into the way things link around the network. The movement is getting some legs to it these days, but the solution doesn’t look quite like what the visionaries expected [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Political commentator Michael White wonders whether the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens today, will yield any "smoking gun" or will satisfy those who accuse previous official investigations of whitewash. Kate Connolly reports on the case of a Belgian man who was thought to have been in a coma for 23 years before neurologists discovered his brain was functioning almost normally....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Da Vinci and Einstein? They're old news – the future is the present Poll: Vote for your greatest living genius As Marc Abrahams writes today (24 November) in EducationGuardian, psychologists spend an enormous amount of energy arguing about what genius is, and where it comes from. That said, anyone would be hard pushed to argue that Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein were not...
Information Policy (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web, showed up at the first day of the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum meeting in Egypt to announce the creation of the "World Wide Web Foundation." ... The leadership of the ITU and Touré...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
It's good news that the government is considering how to make mapping data freely available under public sector information regulations ( A new landscape unfolds , Technology, 17 November). But care must be taken to make sure that the only data which is made available is data which is "owned" by government as a necessary monopoly – electoral boundaries, areas of special scientific...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Kenya is among the first beneficiaries of a project to increase internet usage courtesy of the World Wide Web investor Sir Tim Berners Lee.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is in Kenya: “Credited with inventing the World Wide Web(WWW), Sir Tim Berners- Lee is in town and was today at the Strathmore University for an Interactive IT education session for IT professionals, students and innovators.”
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
TIM Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web and founder of the Web Foundation, visits Uganda next week.
By Neddie Jingo! (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I would be unforgivably remiss if I failed to thank the folks who emailed me during the last few months, enquiring with concern about my whereabouts. I'm sorry I didn't answer all of you, but that's how badly in the dumps I was. But enough of that! Since we're all about the slashes today, I do have to admit I larffed quite a bit when I read a few weeks ago that Tim Berners-Lee admitted in an interview...
Booksellers Association (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The UK Government has announced that Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from 2010. The objective is to join the dots between what, when and in this case where and allow people to automatically link and interpret public statistics about crime, health and education by postcode, local authority or electoral boundary. This will be achieved by allowing developers to use...
Custom .Net Outsourcing Software (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Introduction Semantic web as defined by the creator of the web Tim Berners-Lee is "a web of data, in some ways like a global database" (Berners-Lee, 1998). To elaborate further Mr. Berners-Lee explains in an interview held by IDG Now, data is expressed on computers as associated files with applications that deal specifically with information, an example would be, data in calendars, bank systems,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Landmark proposal on OS mapping and postcode area information is victory for Free Our Data campaign The Free Our Data campaign has scored a major victory, with the announcement by the government that it intends to make Ordnance Survey maps free for use online by any organisation – including commercial ones – at resolutions more detailed than commercial 1:25,000 Landranger maps from April...
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Yesterday we ran the first part of our interview with Steve Bratt, the CEO of the new World Wide Web Foundation, which was unveiled on November 15 by Web inventor Tim-Berners-Lee. The foundation aims to empower people in developing regions to access “life-critical information” on the Web using mobile phones and other simplified interfaces. Bratt, [...]
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
UK government brings regulations in line with US The government has said that it will "explore ways" of making the Ordnance Survey's maps of the UK freely available on the web from April 2010.?Gordon Brown'announced the change at an event also attend by web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee who is now the UK's'information tsar, advising on the handing over of private government data to the public....
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
It's November 2009 and we're nearing the end of a decade. It's been a tumultuous time of change for many industries, much of it driven by the Internet. The newspaper industry has been particularly affected by the Web. Over the past 10 years, news media has undergone a seachange akin to the invention of the printing press in 1440. Just as Johannes Gutenberg's printing press brought books to the mainstream...
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