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World Wide Web Pioneer Tim Berners-Lee Wins Turing Award


The Association for Computing Machinery has given web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee the 2016 Turing Award. Highly regarded as the the Nobel Prize of the computing industry. He received the award not just for inventing the basics of the web, but designing them in an elegant way. His concepts for links (URLs and URIs) were simple and easy to implement, while making HTML the heart of the web helped anyone publish info in a practical format. He fostered the early web by distributing open source code, and he shaped groups like the World Wide Web Consortium (the standards body), World Wide Web Foundation (promoting the web as a basic right) and Web Science Trust (which studies the web's social effects). Google will also give Tim Berners-Lee a hefty sum of $1 million in relation to the award.

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