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Tim Berners-Lee is working on the “Semantic Web,” with its richer information links that unlock the power of “unplanned reuse of data”

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in the late 1980s while working as a researcher at the Geneva-based European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). He’s now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., where he holds the 3Com Founders chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Berners-Lee is also the director of the nonprofit World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a group of 400 companies and organizations that collaborate on standards and technologies for the Web.

His recent work concerns development of the “Semantic Web,” a scheme that could someday put virtually all the data in the world online. Instead of just linking static pages, as with today’s Internet, the Semantic Web will join together vast repositories of information now locked up in corporate or public databases, linking it all together through intelligent recognition of patterns and intersections among disparate information sources.

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