Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau | |
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Cailliau in 2019 | |
Born | (1947-01-26) 26 January 1947 (age 77) Tongeren, Belgium |
Alma mater | Ghent University University of Michigan |
Website | www |
Robert Cailliau (last name pronunciation: [kajo], born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987[1] and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web (jointly winning the ACM Software System Award) from before it got its name. He designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994[2] and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995.[3] He is listed as co-author of How the Web Was Born by James Gillies, the first book-length account of the origins of the World Wide Web.
Biography
Cailliau was born in Tongeren, Belgium. In 1958 he moved with his parents to Antwerp. After secondary school he graduated from Ghent University in 1969 as civil engineer in electrical and mechanical engineering (Dutch: Burgerlijk Werktuigkundig en Elektrotechnisch ingenieur). He also has an MSc from the University of Michigan in Computer, Information and Control Engineering, 1972.[4]
During his military service in the Belgian Army, he maintained Fortran programs to simulate troop movements.[5][4]
In December 1974 he started working at CERN as a Fellow in the Proton Synchrotron (PS) division, participating in the renovation project of the control system of the accelerator. In April 1987 he left the PS division to become group leader of Office Computing Systems in the Data Handling division.[7] In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a hypertext system for access to the many forms of documentation at and related to CERN.[8] Berners-Lee created the system, calling it World Wide Web, between September and December 1990. During this time, Cailliau and he co-authored a proposal for funding for the activity.[9] Cailliau later became a key proponent of CERN's web activity, running several student projects to create and support browsers on different operating systems including various UNIX flavours and Classic Mac OS.[10] With Nicola Pellow he helped develop the first web browser for the Classic Mac OS operating system called MacWWW.[9][11][12][13]
In 1993, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Cailliau started the European Commission's first web-based project for information dissemination in Europe (WISE).
As a result of his work with CERN's Legal Service, CERN's director of Future Research Walter Hoogland signed the official document that released the web technology into the public domain on 30 April 1993.[14]
In December 1993 Cailliau called for the first International WWW Conference which was held at CERN in May 1994.[9][15][16] The oversubscribed conference brought together 380 web pioneers and was a milestone in the development of the web. The conference led to the forming of the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee which has organized an annual conference since then. Cailliau was founding member of the committee from 1994 until 2002.
In 1995 Cailliau started the "Web for Schools" project with the European Commission, introducing the web as a resource for education. After helping to transfer the web development from CERN to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), he devoted his time to public communication. He went on retirement from CERN in January 2007.
Cailliau was an active member of Newropeans, a pan-European political movement for which he and Luca Cominassi drafted a proposal concerning the European information society.[17]
He was a public speaker on the past and future of the World Wide Web and has delivered many keynote speeches at international conferences. He currently has the status of External Collaborator at CERN IdeaSquare.
Awards
- 1995: ACM Software System Award (with Tim Berners-Lee)[18]
- 1999: Christophe Plantin Prize, Antwerp
- 1999: Dr. Hon. Southern Cross University
- 2000: Dr. Hon. University of Ghent
- 2001: Médaille Genève Reconnaissante (with Tim Berners-Lee)[19]
- 2004: Commander in the Order of King Leopold (awarded by King Albert II of Belgium)
- 2006: Honorary citizenship of the city of Tongeren
- 2008: Gold Medal of the Flemish Academy of Sciences and the Arts
- 2009: Dr. Hon. University of Liège (with Tim Berners-Lee)
- 2010: Ehrenpreis Best of Swiss Web[20]
- 2012: Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society[21]
- 2021: Dr. Hon. from the University of Michigan for his co-creation (as cited by the ACM in its 1995 award to Cailliau) of the World-Wide-Web
- 2023: Honorary Member of the Alumni Society of Engineers of Ghent university
See also
Bibliography
- How the Web Was Born (Oxford University Press)
- Publications in DBLP Computer Science Library
References
- ^ Gillies, James; Cailliau, Robert (28 September 2000). How the Web Was Born. Oxford University Press. p. 197. ISBN 9780192862075.
- ^ Past and Future Conferences of WWW
- ^ Gillies, James; Cailliau, Robert (28 September 2000). How the Web Was Born. Oxford University Press. p. 0. ISBN 9780192862075.
- ^ a b Jardon, Quentin (5 March 2018). "Robert Cailliau, l'oublié du Web - Épisode 1 L'évangélisation * 24h01". 24h01 (in French).
- ^ "Knack dossiers : Het web van Tongeren". Knack.be. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ "Why Do We Call It World Wide Web?". Psychology Today.
- ^ "WWW people". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ "Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software". CERN. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ a b c Tim Berners-Lee. "Frequently asked questions - Robert Cailliau's role". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ Gillies, James; Cailliau, Robert (28 September 2000). How the Web Was Born. Oxford University Press. p. 221. ISBN 9780192862075.
- ^ Stewart, Bill. "Web Browser History". Living Internet. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
- ^ Berners-Lee, Tim (3 November 1992). "Macintosh Browser". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
- ^ Berners-Lee, Tim (3 November 1992). "Macintosh Browser". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
- ^ Fluckiger, François. "History of the CERN Web Software Public Releases" (PDF). CERN Document Server. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ Robert Cailliau (21 July 2010). "A Short History of the Web". NetValley. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ "IW3C2 - Past and Future Conferences". International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. 2 May 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
- ^ "European Information Society: Newropeans wants an avant-garde role for the EU". newropeans-magazine.org. 11 March 2009. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
- ^ "Software System Award". ACM Awards. Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ "Geneve Reconnaissante Medal". CERN Courier. July 2001.
- ^ bestofswissweb.ch Ehrenpreis 2010 Archived 29 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 2012 Inductees, Internet Hall of Fame website. Last accessed 24 April 2012
External links
- First International Conference on the World-Wide Web
- First International Conference on the World-Wide Web announcement
- International World Wide Web Conference Committee
- An interview with Cailliau in 1997
- IdeaSquare
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Pioneers
2012
- Paul Baran
- Vint Cerf
- Danny Cohen
- Steve Crocker
- Donald Davies
- Elizabeth J. Feinler
- Charles Herzfeld
- Robert Kahn
- Peter T. Kirstein
- Leonard Kleinrock
- John Klensin
- Jon Postel
- Louis Pouzin
- Lawrence Roberts
2013
- David Clark
- David Farber
- Howard Frank
- Kanchana Kanchanasut
- J. C. R. Licklider
- Bob Metcalfe
- Jun Murai
- Kees Neggers
- Nii Quaynor
- Glenn Ricart
- Robert Taylor
- Stephen Wolff
- Werner Zorn
2014
- Douglas Engelbart
- Susan Estrada
- Frank Heart
- Dennis Jennings
- Rolf Nordhagen
- Radia Perlman
Global connectors
2012
- Randy Bush
- Kilnam Chon
- Al Gore
- Nancy Hafkin
- Geoff Huston
- Brewster Kahle
- Daniel Karrenberg
- Toru Takahashi
- Tan Tin Wee
2013
- Karen Banks
- Gihan Dias
- Anriette Esterhuysen
- Steve Goldstein
- Teus Hagen
- Ida Holz
- Qiheng Hu
- Haruhisa Ishida
- Barry Leiner
- George Sadowsky
2014
- Dai Davies
- Demi Getschko
- Masaki Hirabaru
- Erik Huizer
- Steve Huter
- Abhaya Induruwa
- Dorcas Muthoni
- Mahabir Pun
- Srinivasan Ramani
- Michael Roberts
- Ben Segal
- Douglas Van Houweling
2017
- Nabil Bukhalid
- Ira Fuchs
- Shigeki Goto
- Mike Jensen
- Ermanno Pietrosemoli
- Tadao Takahashi
- Florencio Utreras
- Jianping Wu
Innovators
2012 2013 2014
- Eric Allman
- Eric Bina
- Karlheinz Brandenburg
- John Cioffi
- Hualin Qian
- Paul Vixie
2017
- Jaap Akkerhuis
- Yvonne Marie Andres
- Alan Emtage
- Ed Krol
- Tracy LaQuey Parker
- Craig Partridge
Inductees since 2019
2019
- Adiel Akplogan
- Kimberly Claffy
- Douglas Comer
- Elise Gerich
- Larry Irving
- Dan Lynch
- Jean Armour Polly
- José Soriano
- Michael Stanton
- Klaas Wierenga
- Suguru Yamaguchi
2021
- Carlos Afonso
- Rob Blokzijl
- Hans-Werner Braun
- Frode Greisen
- Jan Gruntorad
- Saul Hahn
- Kim Hubbard
- Rafael Ibarra
- Xing Li
- Yngvar Lundh
- Dan Kaminsky
- DaeYoung Kim
- Kenneth Klingenstein
- Alejandro Pisanty
- Yakov Rekhter
- Philip Smith
- Pal Spilling
- Liane Tarouco
- Virginia Travers
- George Varghese
- Lixia Zhang
2023
- Abhay Bhushan
- Laura Breeden
- Ivan Moura Campos
- Steve Cisler
- Peter Eckersley
- Hartmut Richard Glaser
- Simon S. Lam
- William Schrader
- Guy de Téramond