英语名人堂：蒂姆·伯纳斯·李

蒂莫西·约翰·“蒂姆”·伯纳·李爵士（Tim Berners-Lee），OM，KBE，FRS，FREng，FRSA，（Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee，1955年6月8日－），英国计算机科学家。他是万维网的发明者，麻省理工学院教授。1990年12月25日，罗伯特·卡里奥在CERN和他一起成功通过Internet实现了HTTP代理与服务器的第一次通讯。

万维网联盟（W3C）是伯纳斯·李为关注万维网发展而创办的组织，并担任万维网联盟的主席。他也是万维网基金会的创办人。伯纳斯-李还是麻省理工学院计算机科学及人工智能实验室创办主席及高级研究员。同时，伯纳斯-李是网页科学研究倡议会的总监。最后，他是麻省理工学院集体智能中心咨询委员会成员。

2004年，英女皇伊丽莎白二世向伯纳斯·李颁发大英帝国爵级司令勋章。2009年4月，他获选为美国国家科学院外籍院士。在2012年夏季奥林匹克运动会开幕典礼上，他获得了“万维网发明者”的美誉。伯纳斯·李本人也参与了开幕典礼，在一台NeXT计算机前工作。他在Twitter上发表消息说：“这是给所有人的”，体育馆内的LCD光管随即显示出文字来。

 

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web¹. He received a knighthood from the British Queen for his efforts (so he is called ‘Sir’). He is director² of W3C, which looks after the Web’s development. A leading British newspaper ranked him as the world’s greatest living genius. Today’s world would be very different without his discovery.

 

Berners-Lee was born in 1955 to parents who were mathematicians³ and computer scientists. He grew up with numbers and electronics⁴ and managed to build his own computer. He went to Oxford⁵ University and was banned from using the computers for hacking⁶. Berners-Lee graduated with a degree in physics. His first jobs after graduating were as a computer programmer and software developer.

 

Berners-Lee spent the 1980s on a project based on sharing and updating information online. In 1991, he put the first website online. It explained what the World Wide Web was and how it was used. He gave his idea to the world for free. In 1994, Berners-Lee founded W3C to set standards and improve the quality of the Web.

 

Berners-Lee now spends his time between W3C and as a professor of computer science in England. He also writes about the future of the Web. In 2004, he was named as the first ever winner of the Millennium⁷ Technology Prize. He has a string of other awards and is listed as one of ‘Time’ magazine’s 100 most important people of the 20th Century.

1 web   

n.网，蛛丝，蹼，织物，圈套，卷筒纸；vi.生蹼，形成网；vt.织蜘蛛网于，使落入圈套

参考例句：

• The spider weaves a web.蜘蛛织网。
• You mean the World Wide Web?你是说国际互联网？

2 director   

n.主管，导演；主任；理事；董事；处长

参考例句：

• The director has taken the visitors off to his office.经理把客人带到他办公室去了。
• The new director is easy to get along with.新来的主任很好处。

3 mathematicians   

数学家( mathematician的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? 你以为我们的数学家做不到这一点吗？ 来自英汉文学
• Mathematicians can solve problems with two variables. 数学家们可以用两个变数来解决问题。 来自哲学部分

4 electronics   

n.电子器件，电子学，电子技术

参考例句：

• About 45000 people worked in electronics in Scotland.苏格兰约有4.5万人在电子行业工作。
• He wants to brush up his knowledge of electronics.他想温习他的电子学知识。

5 Oxford   

n.牛津（英国城市）

参考例句：

• At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
• This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。

6 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。

7 millennium   

n.一千年，千禧年；太平盛世

参考例句：

• The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来。
• We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟。