Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau (born January 26, 1947 in Tongeren ) is a Belgian computer scientist.
He was born the son of a tax clerk and studied electrical engineering in Ghent . After completing a Masters degree in Michigan , he returned to Ghent and worked in the university's hybrid computing laboratory. A Gent graduate at CERN asked him in December 1974 because of problems in the power supply units of the Proton Synchrotron Booster , where he successfully applied for a CERN fellowship . After his military service in the Royal Military Academy , where he a. a. was busy programming computers, he returned to CERN and got a permanent position there in 1980.
On November 12, 1990 , together with Tim Berners-Lee, he published the concept for a global hypertext project, from which the World Wide Web emerged .
For his pioneering work, Cailliau was awarded the honorary prize of the Best of Swiss Web Awards on March 26, 2010 in Zurich .
Fonts
- James Gillies / Robert Cailliau: The Cradle of the Web. The exciting history of the WWW. Heidelberg, 2002. ISBN 3-89864-108-2 . Original American title: How the Web Was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web. New York, 2000. ISBN 0-19-286207-3
Web links
- Robert Cailliaus Homepage ( English )
- WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project ( concept proposal dated November 12, 1990 )
- Short biography and reviews of works by Robert Cailliau at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cailliau, R. Author profile . INSPIRE-HEP . Retrieved July 17, 2019.
- ↑ Gillies, Cailliau: The Cradle of the Web . Heidelberg, 2002, p. 171 f.
- ↑ Best of Swiss Web: The 2010 Honorary Prize goes to Robert Cailliau ( Memento from April 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cailliau, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tongeren |