Tim Berners-Lee’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

Net Worth: $10 Million
Date of Birth: Jun 8, 1955 (65 years old)
Gender: Male
Profession: Scientist, Computer Scientist, Researcher, Inventor, Professor, Public speaker
Nationality: United Kingdom
Last Updated: 2019

Tim Berners-Lee net worth and salary: Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee is a British engineer and computer scientist who has a net worth of $10 million. Tim Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 1955 in London, England to parents who worked on one of the first commercially-built computers, the Ferranti Mark 1. He studied at The Queen’s College of the University of Oxford from 1973 to 1976, where he received a degree in physics. Berners-Lee is best known for being the MIT professor credited for inventing the World Wide Web in 1989. While working at CERN in 1980 Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. This would lay the basis for the World Wide Web a decade later. In March 1989 with the help of Robert Cailliau he designed and built the first Web browser. In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the W3C at MIT. It was made up of various companies that were willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Internet. Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium and the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation.

 

You May Also Like

David Joerger’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

David Joerger net worth and salary: David Joerger is an American professional basketball coach who has a net worth of $3 million. David Joerger was born in January 1974. He played basketball at Concordia College in Minnesota and at Moorhead State. Joerger became the general manager for the Dakota Wizards of the International Basketball Association and became their assistant coach from 1997 to 2000 before being head coach from 2000 to 2004. The Wizards joined the Continental Basketball Association and Joerger led them to three CBA Championships in 2002, 2004, and 2005. He also won an IBA Championship with Dakota in 2001. Joerger was a two time CBA Coach of the Year in 2002 and 2004. In 2004 he coached the Cedar Rapids River Raiders of the USBL. Joerger became coach of the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the CBA from 2004 to 2006. He returned to coach the Dakota Wizards, this time of the NBA Developmental League where he won the D-League Championship in 2007. He got his first NBA job as an assistant coach from 2007 to 2013 with the Memphis Grizzlies. In 2013 Joerger was promoted to head coach of the Grizzlies. In his first season he was named Western Conference Coach of the Month twice. In May 2014 Joerger signed a three year contract extension.
Read More