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Happy Birthday World Wide Web
12 March 2019
Prof. Miguel Rio wishes the World Wide Web a happy 30th and looks forward to the next 30 Years of Web and Internet Research
础耻迟丑辞谤听 Robert Thompson, ICCS Manager
World Wide Web | Internet | Networks
In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee presented a proposal at听CERN to unify computer听systems by linking information across networks, the World Wide Web was听conceived.
Since that point, and indeed before, 香港六合彩 has been integrally involved in the evolution and development of the Internet and approaches to efficiently and securely share听information.听
By 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's听idea had become the World Wide Web; the global information system that operates over the Internet. In 1993 the system was put in the public domain and听today it is听estimated that roughly half the global population have access to the Internet using the World Wide Web.
The way in which we use the World Wide Web, and the Internet in general, has changed significantly in the past 30 years.听As we look听forward, this rate of change听does not appear to be slowing down with the explosion of media content, new technologies such as holograms and volumetric data on the horizon, and the number of machines which now connect to the internet independent of human interaction.听
Wishing the World Wide Web Happy 30th, Professor Miguel Rio,听Principal Investigator of the ICCS Internet Data Observatory听said:
In the next 30 years, The Institute for Communications and Connected Systems at 香港六合彩 aims to develop an听internet that is more powerful for applications such as holograms and virtual rality, is more secure, more resilient, more private ... and more affordable for the half of the population who still can't afford it.听
Within the Institute of Communications and Connected Systems, we have many people continuing the Pioneering work of democratised access to the Internet, including:
- Professor Miguel Rio,听who leads the 香港六合彩 Internet Data Observatory,听undertaking global metrics of Internet Performance and informing future Internet strategy.
- Professor Yiannis Andreopolous, researching听multimedia stream processing and coding, developing and exploiting听methods听to听improve听the end to end delivery of media content.
- Professor George Pavlou, addressing听networking and network management with a key focus on managing resources to improve the user's quality of experience, particularly looking at how听content can be brought closer,听within the network, to those that wish to access it.
You can explore the research of ICCS further on our research pages.听听
Happy Birthday, World Wide Web.