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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Lauded For Web Efforts

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gopher-it dept.

crem_d_genes writes "The first Millenium Technology Prize to be given by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation has been awarded to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the 'Father of the Web', for his work in creating the hypertext program that would come to change the way in which scientists, and later the general public would access data over the internet. The rest is history."

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  1. Re:question by NekoXP · · Score: 3, Informative

    www.w3.org isn't good enough for you?

    http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

  2. almost as rich as a dot.commer by peter303 · · Score: 4, Informative

    MIT prof Berners-Lee could have cashed in long ago as a web startup and gotten rich, but decided to develop his his dream without commercial taint. This $1.2 million prize, along with a few others he has won, helps compensate this sacrifice.

  3. Re:question by Mwongozi · · Score: 4, Informative
    Does Tim Berners-Lee have his own website?

    Yes he does

  4. TBL points out that he didn't invent the internet by blorg · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...but rather the WWW, right here. It's in his 'Kid's Questions' section - you might want to check it out.

  5. Re:NeXTcube by minus_273 · · Score: 4, Informative

    dude OSX uses an Openstep implematation as its API. have you written any code on OSX? All the objects derive from NSobject and they all have the prefix NS. NS obviously standing for NextStep. Oh yeah and we still use Objective-C. The Next iterfacebuilder that Lee liked so much? Yes it is called interface builder and saves files as .Nib (next step interface builder). If you look at early versions of OSX like Raphsody you see it is nearly identical to Next.
    Finally, lots of code written for OSX builds on Gnustep and Openstep. For example GNUmail

    So, yes it is correct to say that OSX is the modern version of NextStep just like WinXP is the modern Windows

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  6. Re:Finnish inferiority complex by azaris · · Score: 4, Informative

    I mean come on. Every two years we ship one million euros of tax-payers money abroad and get what in return? It's just stupid.

    Who says it's tax-payer money? From their website:

    The Finnish Technology Award Foundation is an independent fund established in 2002 by eight Finnish organisations that support technological development and innovation.

    Founding Organizations

    The Confederation of Finnish Industry and Employers - TT
    The Finnish Academies of Technology - FACTE
    The Finnish Academy of Technology - TTA
    The Finnish Assosiation of Graduated Engineers - TEK
    The Foundation of Technology - TES
    Foundation of Finnish Inventions
    The Swedish Academy of Engineering in Finland - STV
    Walter Ahlström Foundation

    The usual idea behind foundations is that you have a body that gathers money from donations from corporations are individuals - then uses the interest and profits from investments to fund charitable causes. I don't really see why they would be directly giving away "tax-payer money" as such.