Berners Lee is plainly recognized for founding and running the W3C an industry consortium His celebrity status is not derived from the academy much like Stallman However if we are to use your definition that a celebrity who publishes is an academic celebrity then RMS qualifies as well The man wrote gcc for crying out loud The gcc spec alone is worthy of academic celebrity I recommend that you either label them all academic or otherwise celebrities for the sake of brevity and simplicity or distinguish each of them for their opera Right now its just an awkward and inconsistent mess