In 1995, Tim Berners-Lee received the Kilby Foundation's "Young
Innovator of the Year" Award, and an honorary Prix Ars Electronica, and was
corecipient of the ACM Software
Systems Award.
In 1997 he was awarded the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and
Communications Award, the Duddell
Medal of the Institute of Physics, the Interactive Services
Association's Distinguished Service Award, the MCI Computerworld/Smithsonian
Award for Leadership in Innovation, The International
Communication Institute's Columbus Prize, and an OBE.
In 1998, he received the Charles Babbage award, the Mountbatten
Medal of the National Electronics Council, the Lord Lloyd of
Kilgerran Prize from the Foundation for Science and Technology,
PC Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in Technical Excellence, a
MacArthur
Fellowship and The Eduard Rhein
technology award.
In 1999, Time magazine dubbed him one of the 100 greatest minds
of the century and he received a World Technology Award for
Communication Technology, and an Honorary Fellowship to the
Society for Technical Communications.
In 2000, he received the Paul Evan
Peters Award of ARL, Educause and CNI, the Electronic Freedom Foundation's
pioneer award, and the George R Stibitz
Computer Pioneer award at the American Computer Museum,
and the Special Award
for Outstanding Contribution of the World Television
Forum.
In 2001 he received the Sir Frank Whittle
Medal from the Royal
Academy of Engineering.
In 2002 he was the recipient of the Japan Prize
from the Science
and Technology Foundation of Japan.He shared the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize
for Scientific and Technical Research with with Larry Roberts,
Rob Kahn and Vint Cerf; became a Fellow of the Guglielmo Marconi
Foundation, and received the Albert Medal
of the Royal Society for the
encouragement of Art, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
In 2004 Tim was listed in the
new year's honours list for a knighthood (KBE) for services
to the global development of the Internet and was awarded the
first
Millennium Technology Prize. He was knighted by H.M. the
Queen on 16th July, 2004.
He has honorary degrees from the Parsons School of Design, New York (D.F.A., 1996) , Southampton University (D.Sc., 1996), Essex University (D.U., 1998) Southern Cross University (1998), the Open University (D.U., 2000), Columbia University (D.Law, 2001), Oxford University (2001) and The University of Port Elizabeth (DSc). He is a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers., a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society (2001) and a member of the American Philosophical Society (2004).