Håkon Wium Lie

Awards & Honours

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Lie's achievements are measured in the everyday experience of billions of web users. CSS is the backbone of modern web design, and his vision for separating style from structure has been adopted universally. He has been recognized with lifetime awards from the Web Standards Project and the ACM SIGGRAPH, and he is a member of the Web Honors Hall of Fame. His work continues to influence new generations of developers.

AwardsLie has been honored for his foundational work on the web. He received the Web Standards Project's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001 and the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2003. He is a member of the Web Honors Hall of Fame.

Honours & Distinctions

Web Honors Hall of Fame

Web Honors·2016

Inducted for his foundational contributions to web standards.

Records & Feats

Creator of CSS

Historic First·1994

Developed the first CSS specification in 1994, which became a W3C standard in 1996.