W3C Tim Berners-Lee to head new U.K. Institute of Web Science
The World Wide Web Consortium’s director and MIT professor Tim Berners-Lee will head a new British government research and policy organization according to press reports in the Financial Times.
Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web will remain at the W3 and MIT, according to a W3 spokesperson.
U.K.’s British prime minister Gordon Brown announced the creation of the Institute of Web Science this morning. The institute, funded by £30 million in British government funds, will conduct research on how the Internet can help promote economic growth and interaction between the government and the British people.
Tim Berners-Lee will head the organization with University of Southhampton professor of artificial intelligence Nigel Shadbolt.