Jakob Nielsen is a well-known Web design consultant and is considered to be the world's leading expert on Web usability. He calls himself a guru of Web usability in his promotional material and is regarded as one of the Web's most influential people.

Jakob Nielsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1957 where he went to school. In 1973, at the age of 16, Nielsen owned his first computer. This computer was a Gier and it worked on a punch tape system and had four kilobytes of memory. This experience helped to reinforce the young Nielsen's interest in computers. When he went to university (Aarhus University, Denmark) it was to study computer science. Here he was awarded a B.Sc. and subsequently an M.Sc., both in computer science. He then moved to the Technical University of Denmark at Copenhagen where he studied for a Ph.D. in user interface design...