Berners-Lee named most influential over 150 years
Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, OM, FRS, who holds a Chair of Computer Science in ECS, has been named by Intel as the most influential person in technology over the last 150 years.
Intel brought together a panel of experts including academics, journalists and independent third parties to vote on technologyââ¬â¢s 45 most influential individuals, in order to celebrate its 45 nanometer (nm) next-generation family of quad-core processors.
In the judging session held in London last month, the panelââ¬â¢s full top ten comprised: 1.Tim Berners-Lee ââ¬â Founder of the modern-day World Wide Web 2.Sergey Brin ââ¬â Co-founder of Google 3.Larry Page ââ¬â Co-founder of Google 4.Guglielmo Marconi ââ¬â Inventor of the Radiotelegraph system 5.Jack Kilby ââ¬â Inventor of the Integrated Circuit and Calculator 6.Gordon Moore ââ¬â Co-founder of Intel 7.Alan Turing ââ¬â played a major role in deciphering German Code in WWII 8.Robert Noyce ââ¬â Co-founder of Intel 9.William Shockley ââ¬â Co-Inventor of the Transistor 10.Don Estridge ââ¬â Led the development of the IBM computer
ââ¬ËItââ¬â¢s fitting that the people who have influenced the Internet turn up in the top three of the list,ââ¬â¢ said Sean Maloney, executive vice president of Intel. ââ¬ËThis emphasises the way the world is heading and that the Internet is our industryââ¬â¢s demand driver. As we saw at CES recently, people want an uncompromised web experience. Technologies such as Mobile Internet Devices and WiMAX promise to deliver just that.ââ¬â¢
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was appointed to a Chair of Computer Science in ECS in November 2005. In 2006 he became one of the Founder Directors, along with Professor Wendy Hall and Professor Nigel Shadbolt of ECS, and Daniel J Weitzner of MIT, of the Web Science Research Initiative, a long-term collaborative research endeavour between ECS at the University of Southampton and CSAIL at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.