Millennium prize goes to web inventor

Physics graduate Tim Berners-Lee has been given the first ever Millennium Technology Prize for inventing the World Wide Web. It was released on the internet in 1991 for free - if he had decided to patent it, the WWW would be completely different! He was working at the particle physics laboratory CERN, in Geneva, when he was developing the WWW, and now he works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devloping it further. The prize of one million euros was awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.  See http://www.technologyawards.org for more info.