Tim Berners-Lee received the first Millennium Technology Prize reported AP's Mans Hulden, for "creating the World Wide Web." The recipient remains modest about his work, the article states, while the prize committee took special note of his decision to never commercialize or patent his contributions. Wow! Thank you Tim Berners-Lee!
A good article on Berners-Lee. Here are some highlights:
"He envisioned a global information space where information stored on computers everywhere was linked and available to anyone anywhere. There were two technologies already developed that would allow his vision to become reality."
"Initially, his proposal received no reply, but he began working on his idea anyway..."
"bureaucracy . . . was slow in acknowledging his efforts."
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