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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Hindi font (Any Indian font) for android mobile

If you are an android user and face problem with hindi font. Follow this step.

Install Mini Opera browser and type "opera:config" in the address bar, then go to end of the page and change "Use bitmap fonts to complex scripts" to YES.

Now you can view Indian website with native fonts.... :-)

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Tim Berners Lee: Inventor of WWW World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee is known as a inventor of Internet. He graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford University, England, 1976. In 1989, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.

Tim Berners Lee is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He was a Director of the Web Science Trust (WST) launched in 2009 to promote research and education in Web Science, the multidisciplinary study of humanity connected by technology.

Tim is a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity. He has promoted open government data globally and is a member of the UK's Transparency Board.


Awards That Tim Berners Lee has got is mentioned below.

1995:
Kilby Foundation's "Young Innovator of the Year" Award
ACM Software Systems Award (co-recipient) 
Honorary Prix Ars Electronica
Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society

1997:
Awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE)
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
Duddell Medal of the Institute of Physics
Interactive Services Association's Distinguished Service Award
MCI Computerworld/Smithsonian Award for Leadership in Innovation 
International Communication Institute's Columbus Prize

1998:
Charles Babbage award
Mountbatten Medal of the National Electronics Council
Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize from the Foundation for Science and Technology
PC Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in Technical Excellence
MacArthur Fellowship
The Eduard Rhein Technology Award
Honorary Fellow, Institution of Electrical Engineers

1999:
Named "One of the 100 greatest minds of the century" by Time Magazine
World Technology Award for Communication Technology
Honorary Fellowship, The Society for Technical Communications

2000:
Paul Evan Peters Award of ARL, Educause and CNI
Electronic Freedom Foundation's Pioneer Award
George R Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award, American Computer Museum 
Special Award for Outstanding Contribution of the World Television Forum

2001:
Sir Frank Whittle Medal, the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellow,Royal Society
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2002:
Japan Prize, the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan
Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technical Research (shared with with Larry Roberts, Rob Kahn and Vint Cerf)
Fellow, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation
Albert Medal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Art, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)

2004:
Knighted (KBE) by H.M. the Queen for services to the global development of the Internet 
Millennium Technology Prize
Special Award of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Member, American Philosophical Society

2005:
Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service for Mass Communications
Die Quadriga Award
Financial Times Lifetime Achievement Award

2006:
President's Medal, the Institute of Physics

2007:
Awarded the Order of Merit by H.M. the Queen
Charles Stark Draper Prize, National Academy of Engineering
Lovelace Medal, British Computer Society
D&AD President's Award for Innovation and Creativity
MITX (Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange) Leadership Award
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering

2008:
BITC Award for Excellence
IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award
Fellow, IEEE
Pathfinder Award, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

2009:
Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences
Webby Awards Lifetime Achievement Award

2010:
UNESCO Niels Bohr Gold Medal Award

2011:
The Mikhail Gorbachev Award
DAMA Web Awards, Bilbao Web Summit