Web Science In the News (Page 1)
Scientific American
(1 July 2011) WST Director James Hendler comments on the launch of Google+ and its likely impact on Facebook and the future of social networking.
The Atlantic
(29 June 2011) Last week, at the Web Science '11 conference in Koblenz, Germany, Mark Bernstein made a presentation about the way the modern Web of internet-based knowledge could still fail.
Irish Times
(27 May 2011) The Science Foundation Ireland-funded Digital Enterprise Research Institute (Deri) is taking on new challenges by defining and executing a research agenda and outreach activities targeted at enabling and supporting people, organisations and systems to collaborate and interoperate on a global scale using semantic web technologies. It's just semantics
Academic Minute
National Public Radio in the US has a feature called "Academic minute" where professors from around the country can send in a short piece and a few are selected for airing - hear Professor James Hendler's minute.
Information Age
(1 December 2010) For a pair of academic information technologists, Professors Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee have an unusual degree of influence over government policy.
Eureka Alert
(16 November 2010) “Data.gov mandates that all information is accessible from the same place, but the data is still in a hodgepodge of different formats using differing terms, and therefore challenging at best to analyze and take advantage of,” explains James Hendler, the Tetherless World Research Constellation professor of computer and cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. “We are developing techniques to help people mine, mix, and mash-up this treasure trove of data, letting them find meaningful information and interconnections."
Voice of America
(8 November 2010) Technology Report on the World Wide Web Foundation and its partnerships with the Web Science Trust and the World Wide Web Consortium.
Something to be said (blog)
Jemima Knight blogs about Web Science: A new frontier at the Royal Society in September 2010: 'Not so long ago I was fortunately asked to join Bill Thompson and Les Carr to be a twitter chair at the Royal Society for their Web Science event ...'
TechEYE.net
(15 October 2010) TechEYE.net comments on The Times list of the 100 most influential people in UK Science, which included Web Science Trust Directors Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Dame Wendy Hall.
Web Foundation
Steve Bratt, Chief Executive of the World Wide Web Foundation tells an audience in Salzburg that Web Science "will emerge as a field like cognitive science, inviting scholars from multiple disciplines to explore questions about the web’s evolution, its fragilities, causes and effects of change online, ways in which the web can lead towards transparency and accountability, and difficult questions like privacy and ownership of information."