My Computer Science Superheroes

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Berners-Lee was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001. He has won numerous accolades on a global scale.Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 2004 and presented the Order of Merit upon him in 2007. At the University of Southampton in the UK, he is also a professor in the department of electronics and computer science. The 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award went to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Oxford.

Contribution to Computer Science:

At Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Berners-Lee holds a collaborative post in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He also serves as the director of the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He also created the universal resource locator (URL), a technique for identifying documents that was first known as the universal resource indication. In 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web with the goal of creating a worldwide information space where documents and other web resources could be identified by standard names, retrieved in a standardized manner, and linked together by hypertext. Berners-Lee established the World Wide Web Foundation to keep the rights of net citizen's safe.

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