EFF Pioneer Awards 1
The Electronic Frontier Foundation gives out a set of awards annually to people who've made "a substantial contribution to the health, growth, accessibility, or freedom of computer-based communications". This year's awards went to: "Librarians Everywhere", which was accepted by Karen Schneider, a librarian who has opposed efforts to install censorware in libraries; Phil Agre, computer scientist and professor at UCLA; and Tim Berners-Lee of MIT, director of W3C. Dan Gillmor has a story, and sooner or later EFF will update their awards page with the text of this year's award.
Understatement (Score:2)
What an understatment. He designed HTTP, the HTML subset of SGML, and the first browser, bringing global hypertext to reality.
Burris
(actually used the first web browser, which ran on a NeXT, thought it sucked and was convinced that Gopher and WAIS, which had really nice clients for the NeXT and more sites , were going to rule the world. boy was I wrong.)