Robert Cailliau

Robert Cailliau
Cailliau in 2019
Born (1947-01-26) 26 January 1947 (age 77)
Tongeren, Belgium
Alma materGhent University
University of Michigan
Websitewww.cailliau.org

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[1] 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[2] and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995.[3] 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.

  1. ^ Gillies, James; Cailliau, Robert (28 September 2000). How the Web Was Born. Oxford University Press. p. 197. ISBN 9780192862075.
  2. ^ "Past and Future Conferences of WWW". Archived from the original on 25 June 2010. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
  3. ^ Gillies, James; Cailliau, Robert (28 September 2000). How the Web Was Born. Oxford University Press. p. 0. ISBN 9780192862075.