Tim Berners-Lee to Head Up Institute of Web Science in U.K. as Britain Goes for Broke on the Web

The U.K. is to get a new Institute of Web Science--and it's to be headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web. Announced this morning in London by Gordon Brown, as part of the Government's Internet strategy (although, given that we're just six weeks away from a General Election in Britain, take that as part of Labour's official manifesto) it will be hosted jointly by Oxford and Southampton Universities.

At $45 million, the Institute, which will serve as an academic base...