AGENDA SETTERS - WHO ARE THE DRIVING FORCES IN THE TECH INDUSTRY?

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Agenda Setters 2005
TOP 50
Tim Berners-Lee

No. 19 Tim Berners-Lee, academic and director of W3C

Last year's position: Not placed

Tim Berners-Lee returns to the top 20 after a one-year absence from the Agenda Setters list.

Best known for inventing the fundamentals of the world wide web, he reappears largely due to his work on the semantic web, a sort of web that's understandable to machines, which the panel agrees will have a major impact on IT.

"The absolute convergence of search and the semantic web is profound," says one panellist.

Berners-Lee divides his time between heading up the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), research at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and a professorship at the University of Southampton.

With the day-to-day management of W3C in the hands of a COO, Berners-Lee these days has more time to devote to technical pursuits, the results of which our panel bets will be as Agenda Setting as that first invention of his.

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Agenda Setters Past

Take a walk down memory lane - and find out who made the Agenda Setters poll over the years:

QUOTATION

"China clearly has many dimensions and many are setting an agenda. It's at the political level, it's at the investment level, it's at the contract manufacturing level and it's at the software level - it's all over."
--Peter Rowell, Regent Associates executive chairman and Agenda Setters panellist


AGENDA SETTERS .EXTRA

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The resurrection of Steve Jobs The Economist

Developing the Skype ecosystem: Q&A with CEO Niklas Zennstrom DigiTimes.com

Ballmer: Microsoft 'not above learning from others' eWeek


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