Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, wins ‘computing’s Nobel Prize’

 Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the world wide web, has been honored with the 2016 Turing Award. The award, which is often referred to as the Nobel Prize for the computing industry, is present annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to an individual who made “major contributions of lasting importance to computing.” It is named in honor of… Read More

from https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/04/tim-berners-lee-turing-award/?ncid=rss