Håkon Wium Lie

Håkon Wium Lie (2007)

Håkon Wium Lie (* 1965 in Halden , Norway ) is a Norwegian computer scientist and manager.

Lie worked at CERN with Tim Berners-Lee , the creator of the web himself, and invented CSS there .

On October 10, 1994, he presented the concept of CSS in the article Cascading HTML style sheets - a proposal . Since 1995, Lie has been working on updating the W3C recommendations on CSS as part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

From 1999 to 2016 he was Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Opera Software , where he worked, among other things, on the further development of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Works (selection)

with Bert Bos : Cascading Style Sheets. Designing for the web 3rd. edition. Addison-Wesley, Boston, Mass. 2005, ISBN 0-321-19312-1

Web links

Commons : Håkon Wium Lie - collection of images, videos and audio files

Homepage of Håkon W. Lie

Individual evidence

↑ Oliver Lindberg: Interview with Håkon Wium Lie . Medium - Net. April 11, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
^ Håkon Wium Lie . dblp - computer science bibliography. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
^ Håkon Wium Lie, Bert Bos: Cascading Style Sheets, designing for the Web . Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-59625-3 .
↑ Private homepage , accessed on January 10, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Lie, Håkon Wium
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian computer scientist and manager
DATE OF BIRTH	1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halden (Norway) , Norway

[MedNet-1] Oliver Lindberg: Interview with Håkon Wium Lie . Medium - Net. April 11, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2019.

[dblp-2] Håkon Wium Lie . dblp - computer science bibliography. Retrieved July 29, 2019.

[3] Håkon Wium Lie, Bert Bos: Cascading Style Sheets, designing for the Web . Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-59625-3 .

[4] Private homepage , accessed on January 10, 2018.