Tim Berners-Lee invented the world"s first Web client in 1990 and fifteen years later he"s still plugging for smarter browsing technologies that give end users more ability to create and interact with online data. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 and introduced the first Web client in 1990, touching off a technological revolution that continues to play out in today"s rapidly evolving Internet space.
The inventor and self-proclaimed "user interface engineer" continues to help guide development of the Web and related technologies from his position as director of the W3C (Worldwide Web Consortium) and senior researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory).
Much of this work currently revolves around his concept for a more abstract, data-oriented online communications network, or what he calls the Symantec Web. i
Berners-Lee recently spoke with eWeek.com Senior Writer Matt Hines about the current state of Web browsing technologies and further outlined his plans for improving the software to help make his vision for the future a reality.