Web inventor wins top technology prize

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1192460,00.html

Web inventor wins top technology prize

Associated Press
Thursday April 15, 2004

The MIT scientist credited with inventing the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, was today awarded the first Millennium technology prize.

The award, a €1m (£670,000) cash prize, is among the largest of its kind. The prize committee said Mr Berners-Lee's contribution strongly embodied the spirit of the award, given "for an innovation that directly promotes people's quality of life, is based on humane values, and encourages sustainable economic development".

Mr Berners-Lee is credited with creating the world wide web in the early 1990s while working for the Cern Laboratory, the European centre for nuclear research near Geneva, Switzerland. His graphical point-and-click browser, World Wide Web, was the first client that featured the core ideas included in today's web browsers.

Pekka Tarjanne, a professor at the Finnish Academy of Technology and chairman of the eight-member international awards committee, underlined the importance of Mr Berners-Lee's decision to never strive to commercialise or patent his contributions to the internet technologies he has developed.<snip>

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1. Isn't private enterprise grand?

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