Håkon Wium Lie (39) is a Web pioneer, having worked on the WWW project at CERN, the cradle of the Web. He first suggested the concept of Cascading Style Sheets in 1994 and he later joined W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium) to further strengthen the standards. In 1999, he was listed among Technology Review’s Top 100 Innovators of the Next Century and has also been invited to the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer. He is currently a member of the W3C’s Advisory Board, Technology Review’s “TR 100”, and World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers”.

Wium Lie holds a master’s degree in visual studies from MIT’s Media Laboratory, as well as undergraduate degrees in computer science from West Georgia College and Østfold College, Norway.

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