We invite graduate students and recently graduated PhDs to apply to attend a week-long Web Science Summer Research Program
"; cal:location "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York".News Innovation London is an opportunity for journalists, developers and academics to talk about the latest developments in news - new ways of gathering news, analysing data, distributing news, adding value to news, and building news communities.
"; cal:location "hosted by the Media Standards Trust and WSRI, kindly supported by NESTA".The International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym) is the premier conference dedicated to wikis and related open collaboration systems and processes. WikiSym 2009 aims to explore and extend the thriving wiki community, bringing together researchers, practitioners, writers and scholars to gather, discuss and share knowledge and experience on all areas related to wikis and wiki philosophy, ranging from social to technical, and from theoretical to experience studies.
"; cal:location "Orlando, Florida, USA".The IADIS WWW/Internet 2009 Conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical any more but other aspects have arisen. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments.
"; cal:location "Rome, Italy".The Web Science Research Initiative have announced WebSci09, the first 'Web Science' conference to be organised by the WSRI. Web Science focuses on understanding, designing and developing the technologies and applications that make up the World Wide Web. But the Web does not exist without the participation of people and organisations. Now that a significant proportion of life is spent on-line in many countries, it makes sense for this conference to be dedicated to the presentation of research into society on the Web.
The proceedings of WebSci09 are freely available online in the Web Science Repository.
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The workshop is for people interested in collaboration support and collective intelligence in the age of Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web. This includes not only people with technical expertise, but also those who study human aspects of Web phenomena, such as the emergence of on-line communities, and the impact of these phenomena on wider society.
".A WSRI-organised panel at the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008), moderated by Professor Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton.
Panelists:
- Professor Stefan Decker, DERI, National University of Ireland
- Professor Guus Schreiber, Free University Amsterdam
- Professor Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK
- Professor Frank Van Harmelen, Free University Amsterdam
NESTA's Innovation Edge conference is an unrivalled opportunity to get under the skin of innovation in the UK - and consider the impact it will have on our future. The conference brings together a powerful mix of experts from industry, culture, politics and academia. Bob Geldof, Lord Puttnam, Helen Alexander, Michael Birch and urban artist 'Inkie' are just a few of those who'll be fuelling the discussion. Be a part of it. The Innovation Edge is free to attend.
"; cal:location "Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London, UK".This workshop, to be conducted at WWW2008, invites you to present and explain your prediction of the future of the Web, discuss how this evolution can be observed and influenced, and to reflect on why the Web has evolved to its current state.
".As part of the BCS Grand Challenges in Computing Research Conference, Memories for Life (M4L) presents a call for participation for its Grand Challenge workshop.
"; cal:location "The British Computer Society, London, UK".The goal of the workshop was to find ways to facilitate the deployment of Web standards across eGovernment sites and help shape the ongoing research agenda in the development of Web technology and public policy in order to realize the potential of the Web for access to and use of government information.
"; cal:location "US National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC".- Report [PDF]
The potential of technology to shape and support human memory is only now beginning to become clear:
- remedial prosthetics for those suffering from memory problems
- technologies to address information overload in the workplace
- the use of computers in the home to store private memories (such as the dramatic growth in digital photography).
Hence it is an important moment to look at the topic of memory in relation to the Web, at the beginning of two interlinked research agendas.
"; cal:location "British Library Conference Centre, London. ".- Report [PDF]
Social Computing can be broadly defined as computational facilitation of social studies and human social dynamics as well as design and use of information and communication technologies that consider social context. Social computing has recently become one of the central themes across a number of information and communication technology fields and attracted significant interest from not only researchers in computing and social sciences, but also software and online game vendors, web entrepreneurs, political analysts, digital government practitioners. The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing provides a key forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of social computing.
"; cal:location "Vancouver, Canada".In recent years we observe growing availability of structured information on the Web. While significant part of it is in a human readable form, not adapted for automated processing (HTML, AJAX, Flash, Deep Web, Web applications), more machine-processable information enters the Web thanks to complementary top-down and bottom-up tendencies. Bottom-up tendencies are related to publication of structured information in a machine-processable form (e.g. in XML, RDF, JSON). It also covers annotation of unstructured content with meta-data (e.g. microformats, RDFa, SIOC, MPEG-7). Top-down approaches are related to algorithmically structuring unstructured information. They combine different methods of Web mining, information extraction, classification, categorisation, automated linking and named entities recognition. Moreover, phenomena combining these tendencies, such as social annotation of resources, are widely present in today’s Web. More structured information on the Web enables information integration using shared vocabularies (linked data approach), data mashups (domain-specific integration), and automated algorithmic information integration (schemas matching, dataspaces, lexical techniques). In parallel, popularization of mashup, data monitoring and social data sharing techniques, enable easier information reuse and growing number of intelligent services combing various dynamic information sources, algorithms and explicit or implicit users input. The ESIW 2009 workshop will adopt a multidisciplinary approach to current tendencies in exploiting structured information on the Web. The workshop will provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences.
"; cal:location "Poznan, Poland".The interest in integrating Ontologies and Software Engineering has gained more attention with commercial and scientific initiatives. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to explore how Semantic Web and Software Engineering can cooperate. The Object Management Group (OMG) has an Ontology Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) aiming at formalizing semantics in software by knowledge representation and related technologies. The concrete results of such initiatives are the specification of the OMG Ontology Definition Metamodel, the OWL2 Metamodel, the introduction to Ontology Driven Architectures and a Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers.
"; cal:location "Denver, Colorado, USA".Recommender systems are software applications that aim to support users in their decision-making while interacting with large information spaces. They recommend items of interest to users based on preferences they have expressed, either explicitly or implicitly. The ever-expanding volume and increasing complexity of information on the Web has therefore made such systems essential tools for users in a variety of information seeking or e-commerce activities. Recommender systems help overcome the information overload problem by exposing users to the most interesting items, and by offering novelty, surprise, and relevance. Recommender technology is hence the central piece of the information seeking puzzle. Major e-commerce sites such as Amazon and Yahoo are using recommendation technology in ubiquitous ways. Many new comers are on their way and entrepreneurs are competing in order to find the right approach to use this technology effectively.
"; cal:location "New York City, NY, USA".The 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT '09) targets at narrowing the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media - The Semantic Gap.
"; cal:location "Graz, Austria".WSDM (pronounced \"wisdom\") is a young ACM conference intended to be the publication venue for research in the areas of search and data mining. Indeed, the pace of innovation in these areas prevents proper coverage by conferences of broader scope. The high attendance at the first two WSDMs, held at Stanford University and Barcelona in February 2008 and 2009, has confirmed community interest in a more focused venue.
"; cal:location "New York City, USA".Barely more than ten years after the birth of the World Wide Web, the Global Information Infrastructure is daily reality. In spite of the many applications in all domains of our societies: e-business, e-commerce, e-learning, e-science, and e-government, for instance, and in spite of the tremendous advances by engineers and scientists, the seamless integration of information and services remains a major challenge. The current shared vision for the future is one of semantically-rich information and service oriented architecture for global information systems. This vision is at the convergence of progress in technologies such as XML, Web services, RDF, OWL, of multimedia, multimodal, and multilingual information retrieval, and of distributed, mobile and ubiquitous computing.
"; cal:location "Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia".The purpose of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The conference has four main track, covering different aspects of Web Information Systems, including Internet Technology, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business and Web Intelligence.
"; cal:location "Valencia, Spain".The advanced capabilities required in most Semantic Web application scenarios primarily call for reasoning. Reasoning capabilities are offered by Semantic Web languages that are currently being developed. Most of these languages, however, are developed mainly from functionality-centered perspectives (e.g. ontology reasoning or access validation) or application-centered perspectives (e.g. Web service retrieval and composition). A perspective centered on the reasoning techniques complementing the above-mentioned activities appears desirable for Semantic Web systems and applications. This Summer School series is devoted to this perspective.
"; cal:location "Brixen-Bressanone, Italy".We are pleased to announce the seventh European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2009). The successful and groundbreaking SSSW series of summer schools started in 2003, as part of the activities of the OntoWeb Network Consortium, continued from 2004 to 2007 as part of the activities of the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence, and is now a well-establish event within the research community and a role model for several other initiatives. Presented by leading researchers in the field, it represents an opportunity for postgraduate students to equip themselves with the range of theoretical, practical, and collaboration skills necessary for full engagement with the challenges involved in developing Ontologies and Semantic Web applications. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants.
"; cal:location "Cercedilla, Spain".Semantic Computing is currently emerging as a new field that integrates methods from multimedia (computer vision, speech processing), natural language processing, semantic web and ontology engineering, software engineering, and other fields with the goal of creating new applications that connect intuitively formulated user-intentions with the content of data.
"; cal:location "University of California, Berkeley ".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.
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In a world increasingly dominated by the internet, what does the future hold for us all? Join Dame Wendy Hall to find out what it will mean to be a digital citizen in the future.
"; cal:location "Science Museum, London".Business Southampton has teamed up with the Web Science Trust, NESTA, Seme4 and the University of Southampton to bring you a unique opportunity to find out about the future of the Web.
The aim of this breakfast seminar is to help businesses prepare for and anticipate the next stage of the evolution of the Web and the impact that the emerging Web of Linked Data will have on your business.
Web experts Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Professor Nigel Shadbolt from the University of Southampton and the Web Science Trust will speak of how the Web has evolved over recent years and how its future evolution is likely to affect businesses.
Agenda:
0745 Registration and breakfast served
0815 Presentations commence
0900 Networking
0930 Close
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RSVP
• City Champions: 2 FREE PLACES
• Additional City Champions and Associates: £30 + VAT
• Other delegates: £35 + VAT
If you would like to reserve your place, please RSVP by 6th January 2010 by e-mailing bookings@businesssouthampton.com or calling 023 8068 2520 . Please note that this is likely to be a very popular event and spaces are limited so early booking is recommended.
Video Archive
To see the archived video of the event, see http://archive.zepler.tv/275/
Perhaps the key issue in the online era of the Connected World in which we live is that of identity. Public concern over identity theft and privacy is already high, and can only grow as we become more engaged online. What happens as we move forward and make medical records fully electronic for example? How should governments plan to provide public services securely? Even if we cut out the regular loss of electronic records from laptops or CDs left on trains or lost in transit, how will governments keep our records safe? Should we link tax, driving, medical, benefits, and other personal records to be accessible in one place for ease of citizen use, or does that introduce an unacceptable systemic weakness?
And how do we know that information about us kept by commercial organisations is safe and not available to be abused? Today we have the Data Protection Act to protect us, but is it adequate? What should the rules be about availability and use of private records? What should be covered by privacy laws and what is fair game to be sold on and used for (say) marketing? What is privacy anyway, and are we entitled to it? If we put information about ourselves online (for example on Facebook, or even on an email), can we reasonably expect it to stay private? And can IT security keep pace with both technological change and the best efforts of increasingly sophisticated online criminals?
Panelists:
Simon Davies (Privacy International)
Tim Kelsey (Dr Foster Intelligence)
Liam Maxwell (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead)
Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton)
For free registration, visit
Video Archive
To see the archived video of the event, please select one of the following links:
- Introduction by Nigel Shadbolt, http://archive.zepler.tv/266/
- Introduction slides in PDF format
- Panel chaired by Dr Aleks Krotoski, http://archive.zepler.tv/267/
- Opportunities for Studying Web Science, http://archive.zepler.tv/268/
The Web Science Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Southampton teamed up with the Web Science Trust to promote opportunities to study the new discipline of Web Science.
Dr Aleks Krotoski, presenter of BBC's \"The Virtual Revolution\", Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Government Information Adviser, who are leading experts discussed the future of the Web and why we need to study it now.
19:00 Professor Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton): What is Web Science?
19:10 Panel Discussion
Dr Aleks Krotoski, Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee (MIT), Professor Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University), Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute), JP Rangaswami (BT)
20:10 Opportunities to study Web Science
Professor Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton), Professor Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechic Institute), Professor Bill Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute)
20:30 Close
For more information about the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre please visit http://webscience.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dtc/
To contact the organisers, email info@webscience.org
Studying Web Science in the UK
- Doctoral Training Centre for Web Science at the University of Southampton, http://webscience.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dtc/
- Oxford Internet Institute, http://oii.ox.ac.uk/
- Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh, http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/
Studying Web Science in the US
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, http://www.csail.mit.edu/
- School of Communication at Northwestern University, http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/
- Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, http://tw.rpi.edu/
Registration now open!
Nothing like the Web has ever happened in all of human history. The Web is the largest human information construct in history. The scale of its impact and the rate of its adoption are unparalleled. If we are to ensure that the Web benefits the human race we must do our best to understand it, engineer its future and ensure its social benefit. Web Science is the new interdisciplinary field targeting these objectives.
The Web Science Summer Academy offers a unique combination of 7 courses and 3 invited talks in Web Science. The courses cover socio-economic as well as computer science subjects. All courses award credits for transfers to home institutions. Courses are held in English in a 4 weeks period in June/July 2010.
Join Web Science Summer Academy and:
* explore interdisciplinary facets of web science.
* earn credit points for your studies at your home institution.
* meet a lot of interesting people.
* have fun enjoying a variety of social events.
* if you want: aquire basic skills in the German language.
Courses
*Computer Science Track*
* Semantic Web (Prof. Staab
* Web Retrieval (Dr. Sizov)
* Web Engineering (Prof. Ebert)
*Socio-Economic Track*
* Social Web and Bibliometry (Prof. Sure)
* Agent Based Simulation for a better Understanding of Social Processes
on the Web (Prof. Troitzsch & Prof. Gilbert)
* System Analysis and Mathematical Modelling (Prof. Chernyshenko)
* Virtual Goods (Prof. Grimm)
*Invited Talks*: Highlights in Web Science (to be confirmed)
* The Web and the Law (tbc)
* Prof. I. Antoniou: The Physics of the Web: The Web as a Complex System
* Data.gov (tbc)
Participation in Courses
We recommend participants to register for two or three courses. If you
apply for three courses (or even more) please consider the amount of
work and exams you will have to master in a rather limited period of time.
A good command of English is required to successfully participate in the
courses.
Registration fee per course amounts to 175 Euro (late registration: 200
Euro), which includes the course materials. Students from Partner
Universities of the Department of Computer Science of the University of
Koblenz-Landau will receive fee waivers.
Travelling and Accommodation
Located at the banks of the rivers Rhine and Mosel, at the heart of
Europe, and with only 1 hour distance to three international airport,
Koblenz is easy to reach from anywhere.
The Summer Academy offers various accommodations for a low price. You
may apply for a sponsor-subsidized accommodation. Further Information
The Web Science Summer Academy is held as part of the Summer Academy of
University of Koblenz-Landau.
Please find more details about the (Web Science) Summer Academy on our
website:
"; cal:location "University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany".
The BIS conference is by now a well-respected event joining international researchers to discuss the wide range of the development, implementation, application and improvement of business applications and systems. It is addressed to the scientific community, people involved in the development of business computer applications, consultants helping to properly implement computer technology and applications in the industry.
Professor Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, will be giving a keynote speech.
"; cal:location "Berlin, Germany ".
Aleks Krotoski is an academic and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity and the social, political, economic and psychological impact of the 20 years of the Web. Her PhD thesis in Social Psychology (University of Surrey, 2009) examined how information spreads around the social networks of the World Wide Web. She recently completed the 4-part, BAFTA-winning prime time BBC 2 series Virtual Revolution, about the social history of the World Wide Web. Aleks writes for The Guardian and Observer newspapers, and hosts Tech Weekly, their technology podcast. Her writing also appears on BBC Technology, New Statesman, MIT Technology Review and The Telegraph. Finally, she’s the New Media Sector Champion for UKTI, the government department that promotes British businesses around the world.
This event, the first in a series of Web Science Distinguished Lectures, will be streamed live.
"; cal:location "University of Southampton (streamed live)".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.
"; cal:location "La Sorbonne, Paris".
Professor Nigel Shadbolt FREng
University of Southampton
We are living in an age of superabundant information. The Internet and World Wide Web have been the agents of this revolution. This deluge of information and data has led to a range of scientific discoveries and engineering innovations. From characterising the shape and structure of the Web to efficiently searching its billions of items of content.
We are also witnessing the emergence of a new Web - a Web of Linked Data - driven by the release of large sets of data into the public domain. This offers new opportunities for science, government and business.
There are challenges too – how will we ensure the quality and integrity of these information assets, how do we respect and protect our privacy in a world of increasingly interconnected data. The lecture will discuss these fast moving developments and how they will impact all aspects of our lives.
Speaker biography
Nigel Shadbolt FREng is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton and with Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been developing Open Data technology and policy for UK Government. His research is directed to the development of the next generation Web and the establishment of Web Science.
Admission free – no ticket or advance booking required. Doors will open at 5.45pm and seats will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
This event will be broadcast live on the web at royalsociety.org/live
The World Wide Web is the most complex piece of technology ever engineered, and has transformed almost every aspect of everyday life, from science to entertainment, politics to the media, commerce to socialising, banking to espionage, administration to crime. Yet our ethical and moral thinking about this new space has not kept up with the pace of change. To explore these issues, the British Library and the Web Science Trust are co-sponsoring a workshop on Ethics and the Web, featuring keynote speeches, panel discussions and debates with an invited audience of practising engineers, academic researchers and philosophers.
This workshop is related to the British Library's Growing Knowledge exhibition.
".Web Science is concerned with the full scope of socio-technical relationships that are engaged in the World Wide Web. It is based on the notion that understanding the Web involves not only an analysis of its architecture and applications, but also insight into the people, organizations, policies, and economics that are affected by and subsumed within it.
As such Web Science, and thus this conference, is inherently interdisciplinary and integrates computer and information sciences with a multitude of disciplines including sociology, economics, political science, law, management, language and communication, geography and psychology. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue.
"; cal:location "Koblenz, Germany".Workshop at the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011
With the appearance and expansion of Twitter, Facebook Like, Foursquare, and similar low-effort publishing services, the effort required to participate on the Web is getting lower and lower. Enormous quantities of small user input are being piped into the data streams of the Web, leading to a rate of growth which has never been witnessed before. We refer to such small user inputs as Microposts, these can range from 'checkin' at a location on a geo-social networking site - allowing users to inform their friends of their current location - through to a status update on a social networking platform. The production of such masses of data, combined with the disparate and heterogeneous nature of the topics which Microposts refer to, requires new techniques to glean knowledge from them and provide useful services and applications sitting atop the amalgamation of this data.
This workshop: \"Making Sense of Microposts\" (MSM), will cover the topics of: information extraction and leveraging of semantics from Microposts; making use of Microposts' semantics; and social studies related to Microposts that could help build appealing new systems based on this type of data. The workshop has two main points of difference from existing Social Semantic Web workshops which partially treat Microposts: (a) the interdisciplinary nature and interest to bring together the Social Sciences and Semantic Web research; (b) the focus on Microposts' usage in making appealing tools for Web users and showing how the Semantic Web makes a difference in those applications. One of the main goals of MSM is to bring together the researchers from various disciplines treating the question of Microposts from different angles. We are particularly interested in submissions describing theories from the Social Sciences related to the creation and potential usage of Microposts that could inspire the creation of data structures, ontologies and finally interfaces that make advanced use of Microposts. We also envisage submissions that describe the application of Semantic Web technologies, either in enabling the inference of new facts, or the gleaning and enriching of knowledge from collections of such data.
"; cal:location "Heraklion, Crete".Nothing like the Web has ever happened in all of human history. The Web is the largest human information construct in history. The scale of its impact and the rate of its adoption are unparalleled. If we are to ensure that the Web benefits the human race we must do our best to understand it, engineer its future and ensure its social benefit. Web Science is the new interdisciplinary field targeting these objectives.
The *Web Science Summer Academy* offers a unique combination of 8 courses in Web Science. The courses cover socio-economic as well as computer science subjects. All courses award 3 ECTS credits for transfer to home institutions upon passing exams or assignments.
"; cal:location "Koblenz, Germany".The conference theme of this second DESIRE conference is theory and practice of creative processes in design. Full papers and workshop proposals are invited on the following topics:
- Methods, tools and techniques for supporting creative design processes
- Methods, tools and techniques for observing and studying creative design processes
- Design cases illustrating the role of creativity in design
- Theoretical insights into creative design processes
- Visions on teaching & research in creative design
- Creativity by teams, organizations, and communities
- Representations supporting creative design
The conference is organized by the DESIRE Network (www.desirenetwork.eu) which is funded by the European Commission. The network aims to advance the current understanding of creative processes applied in scientific and technological design.
The conference is organized In-Cooperation with ACM and the proceedings will be published in the ACM library.
The conference takes place just prior to the 10th edition of the Dutch Design Week, the major annual venue to experience Dutch design in all its facets (see www.dutchdesignweek.nl/index.php?lang=en&id=0). This year’s Dutch Design Week in which over 1500 designers participated lasted 9 days, has 300 events spread over 65 locations throughout the town of Eindhoven, and drew 150.000 visitors from Holland and abroad.
"; cal:location "Eindhoven, The Netherlands".The Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUI Galway is pleased to announce that the Second Web Science Trust Doctoral Summer School will be held in DERI from July 6th until July 13th, 2011
The Web is the largest technological artefact in existence, comprising a global network of information sites and services. It is a social machine, delivering information between people and communities, embedded in almost all processes of human society: education, medicine, science and technology, commerce, entertainment and social activity. It is often simply supposed that the Web is a neutral technology, a stable computing platform for the delivery of information and services. What is overlooked is that the Web is changing constantly in response to the demands of human society. Incremental innovations leads to changes in how people use the Web and in turn how Web technology responds to changed human interaction. Small technological decisions influence how individuals use the Web and ripple out to have unanticipated macro-effects. Sometimes these effects are beneficial such as the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies. Other technologies such as the rise of spam bots or 'blackhat' search engine optimisation techniques clutter the Web with irrelevant, distracting information. While influential corporations such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft generate huge revenues from the Web, the Web itself is owned by everyone and no-one. We need to fully understand the demands placed on the Web by human society, so that its fate does not lead to a 'tragedy of the commons' but to a sustainable technological resource for the future.
In conjunction with the Intl. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011) July 21, 2011 -- Barcelona; Catalunya (Spain)
TOPICS
The aim of this workshop is to encourage discussion and sharing of ideas and highly innovative research results that focus on the future of the social web.
We aim to promote interdisciplinary research and exchange of ideas in this area, between industry and academia, in different fields (e.g., computer science, mathematics, physics, psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology, etc.).
In particular, we would like to discuss what the future of the web might be in light of the recent wave of social media technologies and
services: there is little doubt that the web is being fundamentally transformed by social media, both in terms of how content is created and shared, and also in terms of how business and society are embracing social media.
We solicit the following types of submissions:
* Highly-innovative research contributions describing innovative results;
e.g. new perspectives on social media mining, novel interaction paradigms,
empirical studies showing emerging trends, metrics, etc.
* Position papers discussing the future of the social web; e.g. future
developments that might be extrapolated from current evidence; scenarios
potentially having a strong positive or negative impact on users and society at
large; impact of new social media mechanisms on the future of search, e-mail,
and other \"traditional\" services; future research directions and areas of
opportunity for innovation.
Contributions are limited to 10 pages in ACM-SIG format, and should be Submited through EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fosw2011.
IMPORTANT DATES
* March 28, 2011:Workshop Paper Submission
* April 8, 2011:Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification
* July 21, 2011:ICWSM-11 Workshops Day
ORGANIZERS
* Ricardo Baeza-Yates - Yahoo! Research Barcelona
* Carlos Castillo - Yahoo! Research Barcelona
* Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon - University of Oxford (UK)
* Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes - Yahoo! Research Barcelona
"; cal:location "Barcelona, Catalunya (Spain) ".To celebrate the launch of the W3C office for UK and Ireland, Nominet will be hosting an event at Keble College, Oxford.
This will be a half day seminar for both W3C Members and other Industry participants. Our keynote speaker is Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). There will also be speakers from the BBC, Vodafone and the Oxford Internet Institute.
To register a place at the event visit
"; cal:location "Keble College, Oxford".The Web has transformed your relationships with stakeholders, their interactions with each other and their regard for your brands. This transformation couldn't have been foreseen just a decade or so ago. Imagine what the New Web promises for the future.
The New Web is already here, and the early adopters have begun to put it to work. The sooner your organisation understands what it is, what's possible and what's happening today, the sooner you can pursue the opportunities and secure competitive advantage. This is a unique event bringing together the key players in the technology industry which will help us to discover new and better ways to do business, run our countries, and lead fulfilling and sustainable lives via the intelligent, innovative and diligent development of the New Web.
What's being talked about?
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and a host of experts, will bring you up to speed and help attendees to find how these new technologies can improve internal processes as well as public relations.
To book a place at this event please visit
"; cal:location "The Royal Society, 6-9, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG".More details to follow in due course.
"; cal:location "Leiden, The Netherlands".After the success of the P4 Digital Healthcare convention in 2010, Highlands and Islands Enterprise offers the opportunity to further explore the rapidly evolving field of P4 digital healthcare.
The term 'P4' is being adopted in the life sciences and digital healthcare sectors to describe the changing healthcare landscape as it becomes more Predictive, Preventative, Personalised and Participatory.
P4 Digital: The future of healthcare conference, taking place at the Centre for Health Science in Inverness, will be held on 10 and 11 May 2011. The theme of the event will be 'exploring and connecting'.
"; cal:location "Centre for Health Science , Inverness".
The Meetup is neither a conference nor a workshop but rather an informal working day to gather people interested in both Web Science research and teaching as well as to prepare the future collaborations on that topic.
You are invited to propose a possible presentation by sending us an abstract (“position statement”) before Friday 6th May. There will be a keynote presentation given by Pr. Wendy Hall, Univ. of Southampton (given by video conference).
Please learn more and subscribe to the Meetup by visiting:
"; cal:location "Montpellier, at LIRMM".The Tetherless World Constellation at RPI is excited to announce that TWC and the SciVerse team at Elsevier are planning a 24-hour Health and Life Sciences Semantic Web Hackathon to be held 27-28 June 2011. The Elsevier-sponsored event will be held at the beautiful Pat's Barn, on the campus of the Rensselaer Technology Park.
Participants will compete against each other to develop apps using linked data from TWC and other sources, web APIs from Elsevier SciVerse, and visualization and other resources from around the Web.
"; cal:location "Pat's Barn, Rensselaer Technology Park, USA ".Co-located with EC-TEL 2011: The Sixth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (http://www.ec-tel.eu/)
This workshop is the third in a series investigating the potential of semantic web technologies and of linked data infrastructures in higher education. It follows the successful organisation of the 1st SemHE workshop at ECTEL 2009, the 2nd SemHE workshop in 2010 and the special issue for the IEEE Transactions in Learning Technologies (scheduled for Oct-Dec 2011) to which the best papers were invited to submit. There has been much interest in this topic within the Technology Enhanced Learning, the Higher Education and the Web Science communities. The workshop is supported by the research community that participated in the previous workshops and the community that is taking particular interest in the area of linked open data in higher education.
"; cal:location "Palermo, Italy".Click here for further details
"; cal:location "Evanston, Illinois".The Second International Symposium on the Web and Philosophy Co-located at Philosophy and Theory of AI Conference (PT-AI)
> Deadline: September 15 2011 (author notification: September 22 2011)
> Format: 500-1000 words (including references). Pure text or pdf.
> Submission: Online - http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=philoweb2011
> Registration: Online at http://www.pt-ai.org/registration/ as for the normal conference, with ability to attend the entire PT-AI conference
> Costs: 80€ full, 40€ for students (including conference dinner).
> Further information about travel etc. on the PT-AI site.
> PT-AI Conference (Keynotes by Hubert Dreyfus, James Moor, Rolf
> Pfeifer): http://www.pt-ai.org/
For further information go to: http://web-and-philosophy.org/philoweb2011_pt-ai_salonica/
"; cal:location "Salonkia, Thessaloniki, Greece".
Keynote Speakers:
- Stevan Harnad (University of Southampton)
- Scott Lash (Goldsmiths)
- Christopher Menzel (Texas A&M University)
- François Rastier (INALCO)
Call for Papers:
The advent of the Web is one of the defining technological events of the twentieth-first century, yet its impact on the fundamental questions of philosophy has not yet been widely explored, much less systematized. The Web, as today implemented on the foundations of the Internet, is broadly construed as an information space, the space of all items of interest (“resources”) identified by URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers, such as “http://www.example.org”). Originally conceived as an hypertext system of linked documents, today the Web is rapidly evolving as a universal platform for data and computation, as URIs are used to identify everything from data on the Semantic Web and mobile code in Web applications. Even more swiftly is the Web-driven transformation of many previously unquestioned philosophical concepts of privacy, authority, meaning, identity, belief, intelligence, cognition, and even embodiment in surprising ways. In response, we hope to provoke the properly philosophical question of whether there is a consistent new branch or practice of philosophy that can weave these changes to technology and society into a coherent whole and have a real social impact?
We welcome all submissions of a philosophical nature involving the Web.
For further information http://web-and-philosophy.org/philoweb-2012-www-2012-workshop/
"; cal:location "Lyon, France".