in May 1994. The oversubscribed conference brought together 380 web pioneers and was a milestone in the development of the web. The conference led to the forming of the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee which has organized an annual conference since then. Cailliau was a member of the committee from 1994 until 2002. In 1995 Cailliau started the "Web for Schools" project with the European Commission, introducing the web as a resource for education. After helping to transfer the web development from CERN to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), he devoted his time to public communication. He went on early retirement from CERN in January 2007. Cailliau is now an active member of Newropeans, a pan-European political movement for which he and Luca Cominassi have recently drafted a proposal concerning the European information society. He is a public speaker on the past and future of the World Wide Web and has delivered many keynote speeches at international conferences. Awards 1995: ACM Software System Award (with Tim Berners-Lee) 1999: Christophe Plantin Prize, Antwerp 1999: Dr. Hon. Southern Cross University 2000: Dr. Hon. University of Ghent 2001: Médaille Genève Reconnaissante (with Tim Berners-Lee) 2004: Commander in the Order of King Leopold (awarded by King Albert II of Belgium) 2006: Honorary citizenship of the city of Tongeren 2008: Gold Medal of the Flemish Academy of Sciences and the Arts 2009: Dr. Hon. University of Liège (with Tim Berners-Lee) 2010: Ehrenpreis Best of Swiss Web 2012: Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society 2021: Dr. Hon. from the University of Michigan for his co-creation (as cited by the ACM in its 1995 award to Dr. Cailliau) of the World-Wide-Web See also History of the World Wide Web Bibliography How the Web Was Born (Oxford University Press) Publications in DBLP Computer Science Library References External links First International Conference on the World-Wide Web First International Conference on the World-Wide Web announcement International World Wide Web Conference Committee An interview with Cailliau in 1997 1947 births Living people People from Tongeren 20th-century Belgian inventors Belgian computer programmers People associated with CERN Web developers Belgian technology writers University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni Ghent University alumni Internet pioneers