Tim Berners-Lee receives the Millennium Technology Prize

On 15 April, for his invention of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee was awarded the first ever Millennium Technology Prize by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation, which recognises technological innovations of lasting benefit to society.
"Tim Berners-Lee's invention perfectly encapsulates the spirit of the Prize. The Web is encouraging new types of social networks, contributing to transparency and democracy, and opening up new avenues for information management and business development," underlined Pekka Tarjanne, chairman of the jury and former Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Tim Berners-Lee created the first server, browser and editor, the HTML code, the URL address and the HTTP transmission protocol at CERN in 1990. CERN released the Web into the public domain in 1993.
Tim Berners-Lee is currently head of the World Wide Web Consortium, managed by ERCIM (European Union), MIT (United States) and Keio University (Japan). He will be presented with the award, which is accompanied by one million euros, by Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland, at the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki on 15 June 2004.