Builders of the
Superhighway
Tim
Berners-Lee a graduate of Oxford University England. Tim now holds the
3Com Founders chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs the World Wide
Web Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with the
mission to lead the Web to its full potential. With a background of system
design in real time communications and text-processing software developement,
in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web.
Bill Gates was born October 28, 1951 in Seattle
Washington. Bill had a vision as a teenager that every business and household
should have a computer. The realization of Bill Gate's vision has changed
the computing world. He's been chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corp. since
1975.
Ben Segal is British who graduated in Physics
and Mathematics in 1958 from Imperial College London, then worked 7years
on fast breeder reactor developement first for the UK Atomic Energy Authority
and later in the USA for Detroit Edson Company. He's been at CERN since
1971 after finishing his Ph.D at Stanford University in Mechanical and
Nuclear Engineering.CERN has kept him busy on various projects including
the coordinated introduction of the Internet Protocols at CERN beginning
in 1985.
Marc Andreessen the single person most responsible
for the transformation of the World Wide Web. Marc is now co-founder and
Vice President of Tech nology Netscape Communications one of the coolest
companies around and of course he's he owner of Netscape Navigator, today's
leading browser. Aside from fame ,Marc is now worth a hefty 131 million.
And he's only 24, his skills stems form an interest in computers dating
back in his hometown of New Lisbon, Wisconsin. This is where he became
an expert in programming. It was while Marc was working at NCSA that he
and Eric Bina first developed Mosaic a program which makes it easier to
mavigate around the intrnet . With the help of Jim Clark's money a new
company was born to develop a new improved Mosaic. Marc recruited 6 members
form the orginal team that created Mosaic, Their break through product
has been the Internet Browser called Navigator.
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