Academic

Robert Cailliau

Belgian engineer, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the World Wide Web

Life

1947 – present

Born

January 26, 1947

Nationality

Belgium

Robert Cailliau is a Belgian informatics engineer who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web 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 and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995. He is listed as co-author of How the Web Was Born by James Gillies, th

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