Michael Leonidas Dertouzos

(5.11.1936 – 27.8.2001)

Griechische Wissenschaftler

Ονειρεύομαι ακόμη τον Ελληνισμό σε όλη την οικουμένη να χρησιμοποιεί τη νέα τεχνολογία της πληροφορικής για να δενόμαστε σφιχτά, ο ένας με τον άλλο, οι Έλληνες της διασποράς συνάμα με τους Έλληνες της Μεσογείου, δημιουργώντας έτσι μια νέα Ελλάδα

Griechische Wissenschaftler: Michael Leonidas Dertouzos

Computer scientist Michael Dertouzos played a central role in establishing the World Wide Web as an international standard. Dertouzos was director of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science since 1974, used his influence among academics, industry and government officials to broker creation of the World Wide Web Consortium in 1993 to oversee development and insure the independence of the Web.

“At that point, I had a half-formed crazy idea. He played an absolutely key role,” Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, said in a telephone interview, referring to his close friend's role in forming a consortium that elevated the Web beyond narrow governmental or business interest control. “He picked up the idea (of forming the World Wide Web Consortium) and put it together. Only someone with this stature could have pulled it off”

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