Robert Cailliau (b. January 26, 1947) is the co-inventor of the World Wide Web.

Early life and career

Cailliau was born in Tongeren, Belgium. In 1958 he moved with his parents to Antwerp. After secondary school he graduated from Ghent University in 1969. He also has an MSc from the of University of Michigan in Computer, Information and Control Engineering, 1971.

In December 1974 he started working at CERN as a fellow in the Proton Synchrotron (PS) division, working on the control system of the accelerator. In April 1987 he left the PS division to become group leader of Office Computing Systems in Data Handling division. In 1990, he and Tim Berners-Lee proposed a hypertext system for access to the CERN documentation. This led to the World Wide Web.

Currently he's head of External Communication, part of the Education and Technology Transfer unit at CERN.

Cailliau is a synaesthete.

External links

• Robert Cailliau's home page