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THE ACM A. M. TURING AWARD

“The Web has radically changed the way we share information and is a key factor for global economic growth and opportunity” said Andrei Broder, Google Distinguished Scientist. “The idea of a web of knowledge originated in a brilliant 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush. Through 1989, several pieces of the puzzle came together: hypertext, the Internet, personal computing.

But the explosive growth of the Web started when Tim Berners-Lee proposed a unified user-interface to all types of information supported by a new transport protocol. This was a significant inflection point, setting the stage for everyone in the world, from high schoolers to corporations, to build their Web presences and collectively create the wonderful World Wide Web.”

Andrei Broder Google Distinguished Scientist Google Inc.

Financial support for the ACM A. M. Turing Award is provided by Google Inc. For more information see http://research.google.com/

ACM and Google congratulate SIR TIM BERNERS-LEE For inventing the World Wide Web, the first Web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale.