Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor Of The Web, Wins $1 1000000 Turing Accolade 2016

Sir Tim Berners-Lee — the inventor of the WWW — has won this year's A.M. Turing Award, which is oftentimes described equally the "Nobel Prize of Computing," past times the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Turing Award is named afterwards Alan Mathison Turing, the British mathematician together with estimator scientist who was a key contributor to the Allied cryptanalysis of High German Enigma goose egg together with High German "Tunny" encoding car inwards World War II.

The ACM announced the 2016 Turing Award on Tuesday, which too includes the elevation prize of $1 Million that has been awarded to Sir Berners-Lee, who is long known for inventing World Wide Web, which becomes a means for scientists to part information on the Internet.

"I'm humbled to have the namesake abide by of a computing pioneer who showed that what a programmer could practise amongst a estimator is express solely past times the programmer themselves," Sir Berners-Lee said on receiving the award. 

"It's an abide by to have an abide by similar the Turing that has been bestowed to closed to of the most bright minds inwards the world."

Sir Berners-Lee wrote nearly the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that outlined how information would locomote betwixt computers, equally good as, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) that was used to practise the world's kickoff website – which tin nevertheless hold upward visited today fifty-fifty afterwards to a greater extent than than 2 decades of its creation.

Sir Berners-Lee vision was to practise a house where individuals could part information across the globe through a "universal linked information system," inwards which a network of documents (web pages) linked to i closed to other could assist people navigate to observe what precisely they need.

And then is the concept of the World Wide Web.

Sir Berners-Lee initially proposed the catch for a worldwide network of computers sharing information inwards the twelvemonth 1989, spell he was working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) inwards Geneva, Switzerland.

The WWW (W3) was written on a NeXT computer, made past times the fellowship Steve Jobs founded afterwards he was kicked out of Apple dorsum inwards 1985.

The 61-year-old professor has non stopped working. Sir Berners-Lee is straight off a professor at MIT together with Oxford together with too remains the manager of the WWW Consortium (W3C) – an scheme that sets technical standards for the evolution of Web.

The Web has since conk the world's most powerful medium for communications, knowledge, together with merchandise — simply that does non hateful its creator is happy amongst all of the consequences.

Sir Berners-Lee regretted a lot of things nearly his conception amongst primarily work organization that the Internet has straight off transformed into the "world's largest surveillance network."

Today, the Web "controls what people see, creates mechanisms for how people interact," Sir Berners-Lee said inwards a statement quoted inwards New York Times. "It is been great, simply spying, blocking sites, repurposing people's content, taking you lot to the incorrect websites that completely undermines the spirit of helping people create."

The Web model relies on key servers together with IP addresses, which tin hold upward easily tracked or blocked. Therefore, Sir Berners-Lee is looking to decentralize the whole Web.

"The spider web is already decentralized," he said. "The work is the authorisation of i search engine, i large social network, i Twitter for microblogging. We practise non convey a technology problem; nosotros convey a social problem."

The catch is to eliminate middleman completely from all aspects of the Web. Still, all the major players practise non concord to this decentralize approach. It's nevertheless a inquiry that whether the Internet needs decentralizing.

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