• October 21st: Luncheon and Reception
  Featuring: SIR TIM BERNERS-LEE, Inventor of the World Wide Web
  Topic: Working Together: Building New Markets with Technical Standards”

Thursday, October 21st, 2004 - Reception and Luncheon
Speaker:	Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web Director, World Wide Web Consortium, Holder 3COM Founders Chair, MIT
Details:	A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim holds the 3Com Founders Chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs the World Wide Web Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to lead the Web to its full potential. With a background in systems design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client (browsereditor) and server in 1990. Before coming to CERN, Tim worked with Image Computer Systems, of Ferndown, Dorset, England and before that as a principal engineer with Plessy Telecommunications, in Poole, England.
Location:	Downtown Club 225 Franklin Street, 33rd Floor Boston MA 02110
Time:	Registration, Reception: 12:00pm -12:30pm Luncheon: 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Fee:	$50 member / $65 non-members
RSVP:	Pre-registration is required by October 18, 2004. Questions can be directed to GABC via email or call us at (617) 437-6588.
Sponsors:	In conjunction with the British American Business Council of New England, the French American Chamber of Commerce, & the Netherlands American Business Group