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September 2010
Royal Society Discussion Meeting ‘Web Science: A New Frontier’
The World Wide Web has changed almost every aspect of modern life. It touches us all. The Web's billions of pages, links and other resources comprise the largest information fabric in the history of humanity. Yet the Web is rarely approached as an object of scientific study.
What processes have driven the Web's growth, and will they persist? How does large-scale structure emerge from a simple set of protocols? How does the Web work as a socio-technical system? What drives the viral uptake of certain Web phenomena? What might fragment the Web? Featuring some of the world's leading researchers on these areas this interdisciplinary meeting will discuss these and other issues as it presents the components of a Science of the Web.
October 2010
PhiloWeb 2010
The first international conference on Web & Philosophy, a joint multidisciplinary effort between University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and INRIA, will be held in Paris on Saturday October 16 2010.
The Web as we know it exists thanks to the interplay of many disciplines and schools of thought. Philosophy, as betoken the many references to formal semantics, ontology, the question of identity and meaning or proper names in current research about the Semantic Web, has played a major part in its advancement. Unfortunately too few philosophers are aware of this fact. Our ambition is to shed light on this dynamic in order to foster future collaborations between philosophers, computer scientists and engineers and eventually shape a new discipline with its own research programme.
This symposium would like to play a foundational role in helping to define what a genuine Philosophy of the Web would be.