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<td><img src="../../Press/Stock/Berners-Lee/2001-europaeum-eighth.jpg"
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<td><a href="#Bio">Short bio</a><br />
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<a href="#Before">Before you mail me</a><br />
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<a href="#Address">Address</a><br />
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<a href="Overview.html#Talks">Talks, articles etc</a><br />
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<a href="#Speaking">Speaking engagements</a><br />
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<a href="#Press">Press interviews</a></td>
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<a href="Research.html">Research at MIT-CSAIL</a><br />
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<a href="../../DesignIssues">Design Issues: web architecture</a><br />
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<a href="/">World Wide Web Consortium<br />
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</a> <a href="FAQ.html">Frequently Asked Questions</a><br />
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<a href="Kids.html">Kids' Questions</a><br />
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<a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4">blog</a><br />
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<a href="Weaving/Overview.html">Weaving the Web - the book</a></td>
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<h1>Tim Berners-Lee</h1>
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<h2><a name="Bio" id="Bio">Bio</a></h2>
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<p>A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented
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the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global
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information sharing while at <a href="http://www.cern.ch/">CERN</a>, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He
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wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP
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and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.</p>
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<p>He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of
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Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical
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Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and
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Artificial Intelligence (
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<a href="http://csail.mit.edu/">CSAIL</a>) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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(<a href="http://web.mit.edu/">MIT</a>) where he also heads the
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<a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/">Decentralized Information Group (DIG)</a>. He is also
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a Professor in the <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk">Electronics and Computer Science Department</a> at the University of
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Southampton, UK.</p>
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<p>He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (<a
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href="http://www.w3.org">W3C</a>), a Web standards organization founded in 1994
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which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines,
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software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He is a founding Director
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of the Web Science Trust (<a
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href="http://webscience.org/">WST</a>) launched in 2009 to promote
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research and education in Web Science, the multidisciplinary study of humanity connected by technology.
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</p>
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<p>Tim is a Director of the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/">World Wide Web
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Foundation</a>, launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the
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potential of the Web to benefit humanity.</p>
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<p>He has promoted open government data globally and is a member of the
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UK's Transparency Board.</p>
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<p>During <a href="../../News/2009#item98">2009</a> Tim also advised
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the UK Government's "Making Public Data Public" initiative.
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<p>In 2001 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has been the recipient
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of several international awards including the Japan Prize, the Prince of
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Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany's Die
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Quadriga award. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 he
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was awarded the Order of Merit. In 2009 he was elected a foreign associate of
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the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of "<a
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<p>(<a href="Longer.html">Longer bio</a>)</p>
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<h2><a name="Before" id="Before">Before you mail me</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>If you need someone to find something for you about some arbitrary
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subject (travel agents, or parakeets or whatever), don't ask me, but try
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the <a href="http://vlib.org/">Virtual Library</a> for example, or your
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favorite search engine.</li>
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<li>If you want to know how to run a server, or how to edit HTML, check the
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<a href="/">W3C web</a> or your local bookstore. I'm sorry I can't answer
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individual requests for help.</li>
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<li>If you can't access something on <tt>www.w3.org</tt> , you find bad links
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from www.w3.org pages, or errors in the hypertext please see the <a
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href="../../Help/Webmaster.html">webmaster's documentation</a>..</li>
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<li>If you are doing homework or a school project on the history of the Web
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then please check my <a href="Kids">Kid's questions</a>, or the more
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general <a href="FAQ">Frequently Asked Questions</a>; and also,
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<a
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href="../../Consortium/Prospectus/FAQ.html">W3C FAQ</a>, or <a
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href="FAQ.html">my press FAQ</a> as almost everything I have is there or
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linked from this page. I am sorry I cannot help with individual
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projects.</li>
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<li>If you are a member of the press and need clarification or an interview,
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please mail <a href="mailto:w3t-pr@w3.org">w3t-pr@w3.org</a> (and Cc me)
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with details.</li>
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<li>If it is about a possible speaking engagement, see <a
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href="#Speaking">below</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>If you have a serious comment on things I have signed, then do email me. I
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am also always open to discussion with W3C Advisory Committee
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representatives.</p>
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<h2>What not to email</h2>
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<p>Email is safe unless it contains programs. (Data and documents are fine,
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programs are not). If you send me a program, I will not run it, as it could
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damage my system and could be a virus.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Note: Documents for Microsoft word, Excel, and possibly other Office
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programs tend to execute programs (scripts) in what you would expect to be
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harmless documents. These can expose my machine to viruses, because these
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programs do not (it seems) prevent scripts from running within a document
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when it received by email. Please do not send me Microsoft Office
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documents.</li>
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<li>If you are sending text, please send it as plain text, HTML, of necessary PDF. If you use
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your favorite word process, slide tool, etc, and send it in that program's
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format, then you are forcing me install proprietary software on whatever
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machine I read them on. </li>
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I will be more likely to discard it as I understand that a famous series of
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viruses in 2001 resulted from Outlook's tendency to execute scripts in
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email, and used up a huge amount of my and my colleague's time.</li>
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<h2>What you can email</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>These are all good document standards: Plain text messages, HTML
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(sometimes called rich text) pages without scripts, Photos (JPEG files,
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PNG, GIF and SVG), PDF, SMIL, RDF/XML, N3 and so on. All these can be sent as messages or
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as attachments to messages. I can read them with a variety of software
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programs, and they cannot contain viruses, unless there is a serious bug in
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the code I use to read them. If you don't need anything else, then use
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plain text.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>These are good rules when emailing anyone.</p>
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<p>Please use my full name in the "To" line with my email address, as this will
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make your message look less like spam. This will happen automatically if you
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have me in your address book. If you just type in my email address, I probably
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won't see your mail.</p>
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<h2><a name="Address" id="Address">Address</a></h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/node/95">Directions</a></li>
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<dd>timbl @ w3.org</dd>
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<dt>PGP fingerprint</dt>
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<dd>4D4B 9D1D C032 0710 3CDC DE0B 344D 9666 1177 9EE7</dd>
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<dt>Address</dt>
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<dd>32 Vassar Street<br />
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MIT Room 32-G524<br />
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Cambridge MA 02139<br />
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USA</dd>
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<dt>Latitude</dt>
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<dd>N 42.3633690</dd>
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<dt>Longitude</dt>
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<dd>W 71.091796</dd>
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<dt>Phone</dt>
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<dd>+1 (617) 253 5702</dd>
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<dt>Fax:</dt>
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<dd>+1 (617) 258 5999</dd>
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<h2><a name="Talks" id="Talks">Talks, articles, etc</a></h2>
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<p>If you want to know what we are working on now, look at the <a
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href="../../Overview.html">W3C site</a> and check out all the activities at
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W3C. Also see:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="../../DesignIssues"><em>Design Issues:</em> Technical and
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philosophical notes on web architecture</a> An occasional series of notes
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about how the web actually works and how to design new technology.</li>
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<li>For a list of past talks, see: <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=All+past+and+future+talks+*&event=None&activity1=None&name=Tim+Berners-Lee&country=None&language=None&office=None&sortInverse=yes&submit=Submit">Presentations</a>
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via the W3C Presentations system or <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Talks.html">an extensive
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list</a> in HTML. </li>
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<li><a href="Disclosures.html">Disclosures</a></li>
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<li><a href="../../History.html">History of the web: some pointers</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>Essays and articles in text form</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="../../2009/Talks/0204-ted-tbl/">"Linked Data" (slides)</a> at the <a
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href="http://conferences.ted.com/TED2009/">TED 2009 conference</a>, "The Great
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Unveiling" in Long Beach, CA, USA, 4 February 2009.
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</li>
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<li><a
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href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/03/01-ushouse-future-of-the-web.html"><em>The
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Future of the Web.</em></a> Testimony before the United States House of
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Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on
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Telecommunications and the Internet. (2007-03-01)</li>
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<li><a href="../../2007/Talks/0222-3gsm-tbl/text"><em>The Mobile Web</em></a>
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Keynote, 3GSM Barcelona, (2007-02-22) </li>
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<li><a href="../../2004/Talks/0914-tbl-speech/text"><em>Speech and the
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Future</em></a> Keynote, SpeechTek New York, (2004-09-14) </li>
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<li><a href="/2003/10/27-rogan.html">Comment on the '906 patent</a> (2003)
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<li><a href="../../2002/04/Japan/Lecture.html">Japan Prize commemorative
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lecture</a> on the universality of the Web (2002)</li>
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<li><a href="2001/MLD">Michael Dertouzos R.I.P. (2001-08-27)</a></li>
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<li><a href="/1999/07/dms.html">D.M.Sendall. R.I.P. July 15 1999</a></li>
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<li><a href="../../1999/04/13-tbl.html">The future of the Web - LCS 35th
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anniversary talk transcript</a></li>
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<li><a href="UU.html">WWW, UU and I - Unitarian Universalism and the Web</a>
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(1998/4)</li>
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<li><a href="ShortHistory.html">A one-page personal history of the web</a>
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(1998/5/7)</li>
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<li><a href="../../1998/02/Potential.html">Realizing the full potential of
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the web</a> (1997/12/3)</li>
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<li><em><a
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href="http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/260000/253704/p57-berners-lee.pdf?key1=253704&key2=2686134711&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=13991775&CFTOKEN=52899240">World-Wide
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Computer</a></em> Communications of the ACM, February 1997, Vol. 40 No 2.
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</li>
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<li><a href="1996/ppf.html">The web: Past, Present and Future (1996)</a></li>
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<li><a href="1996/EUUS.html">The Web; Europe and the US; Harmony and
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Diversity</a> (1996)</li>
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<li><a href="../../Talks/9510_Bush/Talk.html">Hypertext and Our Collective
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Destiny</a> , (1995)</li>
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<li><a href="9602affi.html">Presentation to CDA challenge by CDT et al</a> ,
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28 Feb 1996</li>
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<li><a href="../../History/1989/proposal.html">Original proposal for a global
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hypertext project at CERN</a> (1989)</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="Speaking" id="Speaking">Speaking Engagements</a></h2>
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<p>I do a limited amount of speaking. If you have something
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you think I would be interested in speaking at, please send
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email to <a href="mailto:timbl+speaking@w3.org">timbl+speaking@w3.org</a> with
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details of the event, projected audience size and profile, location and date.
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Events outside the USA are all handled by <a href="http://www.speakers.co.uk/our-speakers/profile/Tim_Berners-Lee">CSA</a>.
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(Please do not contact mutual friends or family to ask for a favor for your
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company, as that puts unfair pressure on everyone. Just ask directly.)
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</p>
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<p>
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Please use an email subject like say "Keynote in Milan, 23 Febrary 2100 at ISWC2100" including
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the date and place proposed.
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</p>
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<h3><a name="Requiremen" id="Requiremen">AV Requirements</a></h3>
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<p>If I use slides (I often do not) I use a laptop -- currently a Mac running
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OSX. I do not need audio from the laptop.</p>
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<p>If you want to test your video on similar stuff, run a web browser on a
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recent one of my <a href="../../Talks/">previous talks</a>.</p>
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<h2><a name="Press" id="Press">Press: - Interviews and material</a></h2>
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<p>If you need a photo for publication, please complete the <a
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href="/2002/09/wbs/1/photo/">W3C photo request form</a>. You do not need an
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account to complete the form, but an email address is required.</p>
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<p>Alternatively, you can ask:</p>
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<li>The press office at CERN (+41 22 767 6111)</li>
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<li>W3C's Communications Team +1 617 253 2613</li>
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<p>If you need an <b>interview</b> for an article, please check the</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.boutell.com/faq/">Web FAQ</a> ,</li>
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<li><a href="../../Consortium/Prospectus/FAQ.html">W3 Consortium FAQ</a></li>
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<li><a href="FAQ.html">my press FAQ</a></li>
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<p>first, then please use email rather than phone. Please contact <a
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href="mailto:w3t-pr@w3.org">w3t-pr@w3.org</a> the general PR request line at
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W3C, rather than <a href="mailto:amy@w3.org">Amy van der Hiel</a> (my
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assistant) or <a href="mailto:ij@w3.org">Ian Jacobs</a> (Head of Communications
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at W3C) to set up interviews with me or with other W3C staff.</p>
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<p>[Photo: in Sheldonian, Oxford: LeFevre communications, 2001.]</p>
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