 He earned a master's degree in physics from Downing College at Cambridge University, and MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from The University of Manchester.Brian Carpenter spent 25 years, from 1971 to 1996, working at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN).He initially wrote software for process control systems, and later served as the head of the networking group from 1985 to 1996, working alongside Robert Cailliau and Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web.