Robert Cailliau

Who is this?

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 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 and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995. 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.

Career

1. 1947
   Born
2. 1995
   Won ACM Software System Award
3. 1999
   Won Christophe Plantin Prize
4. 2000
   Won Honorary doctors of Ghent University
5. 2004
   Won Commander of the Order of Leopold
6. 2012
   Won Internet Hall of Fame

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Tongeren
• •Citizenship: Belgium
• •Known as: computer scientist, engineer, programmer, writer