Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Oxford’s Department of Computer Science

Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is to join the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford as a professor. Sir Tim, who will become a member of Christ Church, will be undertaking research. He is also a full-time professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, where he is based, and where he leads the Decentralized Information Group research. Sir Tim will continue to shape the future of the web as director of both the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the World Wide Web Foundation. Sir Tim was named as one of Time magazine's 100 most important people of the 20th century and in 1989 wrote a memo called 'Information Management: A Proposal', in which he married up hypertext with the internet to create a system for sharing and distributing information globally. He also created the first web browser, server and editor, and ensured that the technology was made freely available to everyone. Sir Tim graduated from the University of Oxford with a first-class degree in Physics in 1976 and has returned 40 years later to become a member of the Department of Computer Science.