In This Issue:

From Planetary to Molecular Research

Marconi Award to WWW Inventor

SEAS Inaugurates Two Endowed Chairs

Macro Money for Nano Research

SEAS Students Make Beautiful Music

School Reaches Out to Help the Community

New Concrete Blends Glass, Engineering, Art

Alumni Spirit Thrives in Asia

Wedding Bells Keep Ringing

Class Notes

Fifty Years of Engineering Education

Artist-Engineer Calatrava Speaks at Dean's Day

Reunion Highlights

Harley CEO Wins Egleston Award

Marconi Award to WWW Inventor

The Guglielmo Marconi International Fellowship Foundation at Columbia University awarded the Marconi Fellowship to Tim Berners-Lee, right, whose pioneering work created the World Wide Web. In presenting the award to Berners-Lee, Francesco Paresce Marconi, left, chairman of the Fellowship that bears his grandfather's name, noted, "The Web has revolutionized information access and exchange across all human endeavors, truly creating a global village. It's only fitting that the Marconi Foundation bestow this recognition on the man who first conceived and initiated this notion."

Berners-Lee conceptualized the Web as early as 1980, when he was working as a software engineer at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva. "CERN was the 'Petri dish' in which the Web was hatched," Berners-Lee said. While there, he wrote his first program for storing information. Although it was never published, it provided the foundation for the future development of the World Wide Web.