A graduate of
Oxford University,he was the first person to hold the
3Com Founders Chair at The
MIT Laboratory for
Computer Science. In 2004, he will be officially made a
Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), and thus,
Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Most likely candidate to beat The Curse of Being Named Tim.
If I had known that all you needed to achieve lasting fame was a background in real-time communications and text processing software, a stint at CERN, and inventing the first web browser-editor, I would have skipped the whole acting career.