32 111 11 529 MakerBot fonder Bre Pettis Kicked off this years SXSW festival in Austin. The thing about Bre is you know he has a real vision of how...
Aaron Hillel Swartz, the "old, wise soul" whose life came to a tragic end on a recent Friday morning, intuitively valued teaching and the sharing of knowledge as a fundamental human responsibility.
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Sweden is the most effective at using the Internet to improve people's lives, ahead of the United Sta...
Tim Berners-Lee isn't is fabulously wealthy--and finding out why he hadn't taken the road to riches (and that he almost had) was for me one of the mor...
Even if you can't name the inventor of the World Wide Web (It's Tim Berners-Lee!), you'll probably want to celebrate one of the information network's ...
Watchers of Friday's opening ceremony for the London Olympics were thrown a curveball during the festivities. In addition the many athletes honored at...
One thing is certain. Politicians throughout the democratic world are pushing for stronger censorship and surveillance by Internet companies to stop the theft of intellectual property.
We're living in a world where Internet access should be as readily available as water, according to the man who helped create the web, Tim Berners-Lee...
Hey, there are a lot of good groups advancing the cause of the open net, and also extending that to people who need a break. One particularly effecti...
Earlier this week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, expressed his views on WikiLeaks, putting himself inline with President Obama as to what constitutes open government.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, warned that social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Friendster constitute one of "severa...
Is sunlight the best disinfectant, as Supreme Court Justice Brandeis famously said? This week in Washington, D.C., hundreds of experts have come toge...
This morning at Nokia World 2010 in London, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, widely known as the inventor of the Web, addressed the audience in a keynote speech w...
Technology has been the ever-present caretaker throughout our history. It has been the muse for thought leaders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Linus To...
In 1994 Rita Dove was the Poet Laureate of the United States, Tim Berners-Lee formed The World Wide Web Consortium at MIT, and I was a new public school superintendent.
This post was co-authored with Joel Fernandez. If you would like to ask Joel any questions please email him at joelfernandezny@gmail.com. The World ...
The Information Superhighway has grown at an explosive pace -- 399.3% since 2000. A significant part of this wildfire growth is due to smartphones.
In a session on perspectives of the United Kingdom's data.gov.uk initiative from this week's Gov 2.0 Expo, Tim Berners-Lee opened with an anecdote abo...
Imagine an alternative universe in which Mark Zuckerberg is born before Tim Berners-Lee, and invents the Web. This alternative history writes its own ending: The Web would be a boring, small, and of little consequence.
Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the Web.
Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee has unveiled his latest venture for the UK government, which offers the public better access to official data....
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been on a quest for several years for the adoption of something he has coined the semantic Web -- a data-rich, interconnected Web.
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, credited for inventing this little thing called the World Wide Web, has signed up for Twitter in a move that could...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary"....
Birds dropping baguettes, terrorist plots and nuclear critics have all tried to derail the Large Hadron Collider, but if all goes according to plan it will be re-creating the Big Bang in no time.
