MIT News:
MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee, the researcher who invented the World Wide Web and is one of the world’s most influential voices for online privacy and government transparency, has won the most prestigious honor in computer science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award. Often referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing,” the award comes with a $1 million prize provided by Google.
Tim Berners-Lee changed the world as much as anyone else in the computing or business world. Folks like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk etc. all changed the world, no doubt. But all of them became incredibly wealthy in the process. Nice to see this announcement.
On a related note, here’s an interview with Tim where he discusses the Turing Award and what’s become of his beloved brainchild, the web.
A tiny fraction of the wealth Berners-Lee helped create, but I’m glad he’s being recognized.
i have a hard time putting Zuckerburg in the same category of Jobs and Gates. facebook is a social network website. and? it’s not necessary and a lot of people don’t even use it. not so with the PC or the web.
And it’s too early to say much about Musk — so far just high end electric toy cars for the wealthy that lose money. Rockets could be something, but still neither has changed the world yet.
I don’t use Facebook, so I agree on Zuckerberg. That said, they are using all that ad money to some other more interesting stuff like the Oculus Rift.
I think Musk will be a Jobs/Gates-level figure within the next 15 years. Tesla is really going to start rolling with the Model 3 next year (either that or go spectacularly bust). And if not that, he’s got the Powerwall, Hyperloop, the rockets, and a bunch of other stuff.
The current guy who really belongs with Gates and Jobs though is Bezos.
As much as I respect Berners-Lee, if it hadn’t been him someone else would have done it… possibly a few years later.
The notion is too engrained to not to have been created eventually once tech reached a certain maturity level. (See things like HES and NLS, for instance.)
This is the problem: Zuckerberg has changed the world, likely as much as Steve Jobs and the rest – but he has arguably changed it for the worse, not the better. I hate what Facebook does to people and I hate what it’s doing to the internet.
Agreed except that the parallel-universe internet could easily have become a private rather than public resource. That it has always been completely open, universal, and free is something of a miracle. (And possibly in danger). As far as I can tell there is no analogue in any other area of human activity.
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