Whose Information Society is it anyway? Africa's Information Economy
Meet one of the
founders of the World Wide Web. Formerly in programming language design and compiler construction,
Robert has been interested in document production since 1975. He ran
CERN's Office Computing Systems group from 1987 to 1989. In 1990 he
proposed, with Tim Berners-Lee, a hypertext system for access to CERN
documentation. That joint project became the Web. He is a long-time user
of Hypercard, which he used to such diverse ends as writing trip reports,
games, bookkeeping software, and budget preparation forms. Today Robert
mainly conducts physics experiments with WWW. Cailliau started the series of
International World Wide Web Conferences by organizing the first one at CERN
in May 1994. He is a cofounder of the IW3C2, the organization that organizes
the conference series.
Robert
Cailliau at the Acacia Conference
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Robert Cailliau is Head
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Web Office,
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