Robert Cailliau
Belgian engineer, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the World Wide Web / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robert Cailliau (last name pronunciation: [kajo], born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987[1] and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web (jointly winning the ACM Software System Award) from before it got its name. He designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994[2] and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995.[3] He is listed as co-author of How the Web Was Born by James Gillies, the first book-length account of the origins of the World Wide Web.
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Born | (1947-01-26) 26 January 1947 (age 77) Tongeren, Belgium |
Alma mater | Ghent University University of Michigan |
Website | www |