Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, outlined his vision for bringing the whole world online and protecting the freedom of internet users at the Web Summit in Lisbon on Monday. Through his organization the Web Foundation, Berners-Lee unveiled the creation of a “Contract for the Web” that he hopes governments, companies and …
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Inrupt, the startup from web creator Tim Berners-Lee, isn’t about to squeeze Facebook off the internet, but it has attracted interest from tens of thousands of people. Inrupt is backing an open-source project from Berners-Lee called Solid that’s designed to let us keep control over own data instead of handing it over to companies like Facebook and Google. Over the …
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World wide web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee’s startup, Inrupt, aims to bring data back to the people. The computer scientist announced Inrupt’s open source project, Solid, in a weekend blog post. It’s “a platform based on the existing web” that gives you control over your personal information and allows you to decide where it’s stored, who can view different elements and …
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Dave Patterson and John Hennessy, two San Francisco Bay Area professors now associated with Google, have won the computing industry’s top prize for revolutionizing processors with a technology called RISC. The pair won the 2017 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, a $1 million prize named after Alan Turing, the British researcher who famously helped crack German Enigma …
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