Turing Award is named subsequently Alan Mathison Turing, the British mathematician as well as reckoner scientist who was a key contributor to the Allied cryptanalysis of High German Enigma zip as well as High German "Tunny" encoding car inwards World War II.
The ACM announced the 2016 Turing Award on Tuesday, which likewise includes the meridian prize of $1 Million that has been awarded to Sir Berners-Lee, who is long known for inventing World Wide Web, which becomes a agency for scientists to part information on the Internet.
"I'm humbled to have the namesake laurels of a computing pioneer who showed that what a programmer could practice alongside a reckoner is express exclusively past times the programmer themselves," Sir Berners-Lee said on receiving the award.
Sir Berners-Lee wrote nearly the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that outlined how information would go betwixt computers, equally good as, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) that was used to practice the world's start website – which tin even as well as hence hold upwardly visited today fifty-fifty subsequently to a greater extent than than 2 decades of its creation.
"It's an honour to have an laurels similar the Turing that has been bestowed to roughly of the most vivid minds inwards the world."
Sir Berners-Lee vision was to practice a house where individuals could part information across the earth through a "universal linked information system," inwards which a network of documents (web pages) linked to 1 roughly other could assist people navigate to discovery what precisely they need.
And as well as hence is the concept of the World Wide Web.
Sir Berners-Lee initially proposed the sentiment for a worldwide network of computers sharing information inwards the twelvemonth 1989, spell he was working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) inwards Geneva, Switzerland.
The WWW (W3) was written on a NeXT computer, made past times the fellowship Steve Jobs founded subsequently he was kicked out of Apple dorsum inwards 1985.
The 61-year-old professor has non stopped working. Sir Berners-Lee is directly a professor at MIT as well as Oxford as well as likewise remains the manager of the WWW Consortium (W3C) – an organisation that sets technical standards for the evolution of Web.
The Web has since give-up the ghost the world's most powerful medium for communications, knowledge, as well as merchandise — only that does non hateful its creator is happy alongside all of the consequences.
Sir Berners-Lee regretted a lot of things nearly his innovation alongside primarily delineate organisation that the Internet has directly transformed into the "world's largest surveillance network."
Today, the Web "controls what people see, creates mechanisms for how people interact," Sir Berners-Lee said inwards a statement quoted inwards New York Times. "It is been great, only spying, blocking sites, repurposing people's content, taking yous to the incorrect websites that completely undermines the spirit of helping people create."The Web model relies on fundamental servers as well as IP addresses, which tin hold upwardly easily tracked or blocked. Therefore, Sir Berners-Lee is looking to decentralize the whole Web.
"The spider web is already decentralized," he said. "The occupation is the authorization of 1 search engine, 1 large social network, 1 Twitter for microblogging. We practice non accept a applied scientific discipline problem; nosotros accept a social problem."The sentiment is to eliminate middleman completely from all aspects of the Web. Still, all the major players practice non handgrip to this decentralize approach. It's even as well as hence a interrogation that whether the Internet needs decentralizing.
