"World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has won the inaugural $1.75 million Millennium Technology Prize, presented by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. The foundation awards the prize to acknowledge 'outstanding technological innovation that directly promotes people's quality of life, is based on humane values and encourages sustainable economic development'," reports ABC News Online.
"He took out the rich new prize ahead of 77 other innovators nominated from 22 countries."
