Robert Cailiau

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Robert Cailliau (born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who created the first web browser for the Mac. He also designed the historical logo of the WWW, and organized the first international World WIde Web Conference at CERN in 1994.
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Career
In 1974, Cailliau started working at CERN as a Fellow in the Proton Synchrotron (PS) division, working on the control system of the accelerator. In 1987 he left the PS division to become group leader of Office Computing Systems in the Data Handling division. Then in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a hypertext system for access to the many forms of documentation at and related to CERN. This became known as the World Wide Web. From September to December 1990, Cailliau and Berners-Lee co-authored a proposal for funding for the project. Cailliau later became a key proponent of the first web browser with Nicola Pellow for the Classic Mac OS operating system called MacWWW.

In 1993 Cailliau called for the first International World Wide Web Conference which was later held at CERN in May 1994. He was a member of the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee which has organized an annual conference since then.

Awards

 * 1995: ACM Software System Award (with Tim Berners-Lee)
 * 1999: Christophe Plantin Prize, Antwerp
 * 1999: Dr. Hon. Southern Cross University
 * 2000: Dr. Hon. University of Ghent
 * 2001: Médaille Genève Reconnaissante (with Tim Berners-Lee)
 * 2004: Commander in the Order of King Leopold (awarded by King Albert II of Belgium)
 * 2006: Honorary citizenship of the city of Tongeren
 * 2008: Gold Medal of the Flemish Academy of Sciences and the Arts
 * 2009: Dr. Hon. University of Liège (with Tim Berners-Lee)
 * 2010: Ehrenpreis Best of Swiss Web
 * 2012: Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society

Reference

 * 1) Robert Cailliau. (2018, April 15). Retrieved April 16, 2018, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cailliau