Web inventor gets Queen's honour
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The inventor of the world wide web receives one of Britain's most prestigious honours, the Order of Merit.
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LONDON  - A rock 'n' roll belter, an astronaut and the inventor of the automatic teller machine were all honoured by the Queen on Friday in the New Year's honours list.
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Don't call him Sir Anthony Leggett just yet. Queen Elizabeth II put the University of Illinois physics professor and Nobel Prize winner, a British native, on her birthday knighthood list this summer, but he ...
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Media & professional: After last week's CBS buyout, Last.fm's founders are the first British Web 2.0 millionaires, writes Jemima Kiss.
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The explosive growth of Web 2.0 and user-generated content is changing the way we use the Internet and interact with one another. So congratulations, Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2006 is you.
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The Association for Computing Machinery plans to announce that Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn will receive the 2004 A. M. Turing Award for creating the underpinnings of the Internet.
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An amateur cryptographer who beat the World War II machine in a code-cracking challenge is honoured.
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Second place has been revealed in Nick Halstead's programming competition - and the 2nd place mark goes to Evan Chiu.   So second place, more drum rolls.. goes to Evan Chiu. Evan's solution revolved around a well implemented breadth first search which was wrapped up in a neat class. It was also quite well presented and the HTML was all w3c compliant.   In Evan's solution, he opted for a single "solve" method to handle the heart of the transition - an implementation of the "Breadth First Search method. If you'd like to see the full code, you can check it out here.
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By Peter Svensson  It seems like a great idea: making a computer that's somewhere between the size of a cell phone and a laptop, for people to carry around and surf the Web.
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The inventor of the World Wide Web told a technology conference on Wednesday that making the Web more useful hinges on a familiar challenge: Getting the players behind
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p2pnet.net News - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web, is going home to England where he&#39;s been appointed a professor at Southampton University.
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YouTube is now playing host to &quot;The Royal Channel&quot;, billed as the official channel of the British monarchy.Introduced 50 years after Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s first television broadcast to her subjects, the channel showcases the Queen&#39;s Christmas messages past and present, and includes documentary footage about the monarchy.&quot;One of the features of growing old is a heightened awareness of change,&quot; said the Queen, now aged 81, in the 2007 Christmas message featured on the YouTube channel.In her lifetime, the British monarchy has steadily adopted new technologies in an effort to reach a wider public.Her grandfather, King George V, made his first Christmas radio broadcast to the nation in 1932.The Queen introduced her 1957 Christmas message , recorded in black and white, by saying she hoped the technology would bring her closer to her subjects.&quot;I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct,&quot; she said then.Since then, much has changed in the world of broadcast technology, including the spread of color television, satellite transmissions and high-definition images. Alongside that other electronic formats have developed to take advantage of the Internet as a transmission medium, including podcasts and video-sharing sites such as YouTube.The official Web site of the British Monarchy opened in 1997, and began offering a podcast of the Queen&#39;s Christmas messages in 2006.The Queen&#39;s Christmas message is traditionally broadcast at 3 p.m. U.K. time on Dec. 25. By midday Wednesday, the 2007 message had attracted over 300,000 viewers on YouTube, while the 1957 message, which has been online since Sunday, had attracted almost 800,000, according to YouTube.While staff at Buckingham Palace are hoping to reach out to younger subjects with the new YouTube channel, statistics supplied by YouTube show that its audience has geekier things on its mind. The Royal Channel is number two in the site&#39;s rankings of the most subscribed channel rankings this month, behind &quot;Household Hacker,&quot; a guide to hacking household electronic devices such as robot vacuum cleaners and garage door openers.When the European Commission launched EUtube, a YouTube channel to explain the workings of the European Union to the citizens of its 27 member sites, it adopted a more sure-fire way to attract viewers: sex. One of the first videos on its channel was a montage of erotic scenes from films made in the European Union, under the title &quot;Film lovers will love this!&quot; In the six months since the channel launched, the clip has attracted 5.1 million viewers.&#160;
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A leading figure in the effort to minimise the impact of disease in developing countries has been knighted.
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Britain's opposition leader David Cameron is proving an Internet hit with his fledgling site aimed at catching new young voters on the web.
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Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the web, says the medium will never realize its potential unless everyone involved can agree on standards that let computers more easily communicate with each other.
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By NO BYLINE  ONLINE innovation in the UK is not restricted to London. Since June 1996, when it was launched by the late Bob Campbell, the site of this newspaper - has been an online leader.   The site has always been on the lookout for new ways to reach its readers.
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Â£5m is being given to a charity that will fund research and educational initiatives dedicated to the net.