By: David Campbell
Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of the Web, will give a talk Wednesday, April 5, at Princeton University on the history of the Web. The lecture is scheduled to begin 8 p.m. in McCosh Hall 50 on the university campus.
His talk, "The Future of the Web," also will cover the concept and development of the "semantic web," an initiative of the consortium aimed at creating a universal medium in which the databases that form the basis of all Web documents can be integrated and accessed more efficiently.
Mr. Berners-Lee holds the 3Com Founders Chair at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a professor of computer science at University of Southampton.
He is a graduate of Oxford University with training in system design in real-time communications and text-processing software development. He is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory.
The talk, one of the Spencer Trask Lectures Series, is sponsored by Princeton University Public Lectures. It is free and open to the public.
The Trask series, which addresses subjects in the humanities, was founded in 1891 with a gift of $10,000 from Mr. Spencer Trask of the class of 1866. Mr. Trask was a financier and one of Thomas Edison’s original backers. He was killed in a railroad accident in 1909.
Past Trask lecturers include Niels Bohr on "The Structure of the Atom," T. S. Eliot on "The Bible and English Literature," and Margaret Mead on "Changing American Character."
