'Nobel science' for web inventor

london - Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the worldwide web, this year will have the A.M. Turing Award. That is the 'Nobel Prize in Computing'. The Briton will receive a sum of one million dollars (940,000 euros).

The Association for Computing Machinery on Tuesday announced that Berners-Lee wins this year. The ceremony on June 24 in San Francisco, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Berners-Lee worked for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva. In August 1991 he took the first site online information. cern. ch, allowing scientists to share their knowledge with each other. Berners-Lee developed the system behind it, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, and computer language that was used previously, the Hypertext Markup Language or HTML. He built the first browser.

Within a few years there were a few thousand websites, and now there are more than one billion.