Sir Tim Berners-Lee Receives ACM A.M. Turing Award

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announcedthat Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the recipient of the 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award. "Berners-Lee was cited for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale. Considered one of the most influential computing innovations in history, the World Wide Web is the primary tool used by billions of people every day to communicate, access information, engage in commerce, and perform many other important activities."