<Li> University of Oxford </Li> <Li> University of Southampton </Li> <P> Sir Timothy John Berners - Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web . He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford . He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet in mid-November the same year . </P> <P> Berners - Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web . He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation and is a senior researcher and holder of the founders chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence . In 2011, he was named as a member of the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation . He is a founder and president of the Open Data Institute . </P>

The man who invented the world wide web