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World Wide Web Consortium director and MIT professor Tim Berners-Lee will head a new, £30 million British government research and policy organization.

Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web as a medium for data exchange via the Internet in 1989, will remain at the W3 and MIT, according to a W3 spokesperson.

British prime minister Gordon Brown announced the creation of the Institute of Web Science this morning. The institute, funded by £30 million in British government funds, will conduct research on how the Internet can help promote economic growth and interaction between the government and the British people.

Berners-Lee will head the organization with University of Southhampton professor of artificial intelligence Nigel Shadbolt.

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