At Harvard KSG With Tim Berners-Lee
Jerry Mechling, who teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School, and runs the "Leadership for a Networked World" (formerly E-Government Executive Education) program there, invited me to a talk by Sir Tim Berners-Lee last Wednesday evening. The audience included ~50 current and former senior public-sector information technology officials attending one of Jerry's sessions.
Sir Tim's comments included:
- a discussion of how the WWW came to be
- an examination of some of the risks that could have killed it early on, and how those were overcome
- an exploration of some of the possibilities of the Semantic Web
- an exhortation to members of the audience to "set their data free"
