#10 Robert Cailliau

Robert Cailliau is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, together with Tim Berners-Lee, developed the World Wide Web.

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a hypertext system for access to the many forms of documentation at and related to CERN. He created the system, calling it World Wide Web, between September to December 1990. During this time, Cailliau and Lee co-authored a proposal for funding the project. Cailliau later became a key proponent of the project and developed with Nicola Pellow the first web browser for the Mac OS operating system called MacWWW. In 1993, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Cailliau started the European Commission's first web-based project for information dissemination in Europe (WISE). As a result of his work with CERN's Legal Service, CERN released the web technology into the public domain on 30 April 1993.

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