Tim Berners-Lee First Honoree of Millennium
Technology Prize.
Reuters, via MSNBC News
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee won $1.23
million on Thursday, the largest single amount of money he has made
from an invention that has made many others very rich. Berners-Lee,
48, was named the first winner of the world's largest technology
award -- the Millennium Technology Prize -- by the Finnish
Technology Award Foundation at a ceremony in the Finnish city of
Espoo. When myriad dot-com firms went public in the late 1990s,
their founders were instantly turned into millionaires at the
height of the Internet investment bubble. Most people would be
hard-pressed to name the retiring Internet architect, who bypassed
cashing-in on his technology contributions for an academic's salary
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United
States.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4744554/
See also the W3C news item:
http://www.w3.org/News/2004#item64