Visit of Dr Timothy Berners-Lee (WWW Inventor)

Dr Timothy Berners-Lee, the Inventor of the World Wide Web, visited the Department of Computer Science at the University of Essex on 26th March 1998 on the occasion of the conferment of an Honorary Doctorate of the University.  He met with Prof Vic Callaghan founder of Robotics at Essex, and now head of the Inhabited Intelligent Environments Group (IIEG) who told him about the groups work on extending the Internet to encompass Internet Appliances and Pervasive Computing.

 

 


 

 

 

 

Top Left: Vic Callaghan welcomes Dr Timothy Berners-Lee to the department and poses for a photo.

Top Left and Top Right: Vic Callaghan explaining a vision for the Internet (and the web) that would embrace “connected appliances” and enable the creation of inhabited intelligent environments.

In the pictures from left to right are Dr Timothy Berners-Lee's parents, Dr Timothy Berners-Lee, Vic Callaghan.

 

 

Bottom Right:  Dr Timothy Berners-Lee being given a demonstration of an “Internet Appliance” for the security industry called superVisor which was later commercialised by a University of Essex spin-off company called netCam (www.netcam.ltd.uk)).

In the picture from left to right are Vic Callaghan, Tim burners-Lee’s mother, Tim Berners-Lee, John Powers and Paul Chernett