Tag: Tim Berners-Lee

British Queen uses Twitter

Posted on October 24, 2014 by - News

Queen Elizabeth IIQueen Elizabeth II took advantage of opening a new technology gallery at the London Science Museum this morning by getting down and dirty and tweeting the world.

The first tweet by the Queen said: “It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R.”

She sent the tweet via the Palace’s @BritishMonarchy account.

The new gallery at the Science Museum includes Sir Tim Berner-Lee’s NeXT computer – he’s the chap who invented the World Wide Web.

The main theme of the gallery is communications and includes old kit such as business computer Leo, how mobile phones work, and how the digital revolution is changing the world.

British sponsors of the exhibition include plucky chip designer ARM and BT.

Berners-Lee speaks up for people

Posted on October 8, 2014 by - News

Sir Tim Berners-LeeThe inventor of the world wide web said today that data should belong to each of us.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee was speaking at a keynote speech at IPExpo Europe in London.

He hit out at the notion that data belongs to corporations like Facebook and Google who collect it and then use it to make money out of everyone.

He said that using big data for advertising purposes gave him a queasy sensation and rather than big data we should be interested in rich data.

He told the conference that big companies are, essentially, spying on us all and this is a real threat.

Collecting your own data from different gizmos you use and different transactions you make gives you a perspective on yourself that is much more valuable than feeding that data to large corporations.

Berners-Lee described what would become known as the world wide web 25 years ago.