Two events in the Learningworks Virtual Conference series take place on the morning and afternoon of Wednesday 16 September 2009.
"; a sioc:Post.A team of European researchers has developed an algorithm that ranks the expertise of users and can spot those who are using a site only to spam.
"; a sioc:Post.Journalists, academics and web developers met in London on Friday to discuss the future of journalism with a sense of urgency as the recession challenges news organisations.
"; a sioc:Post.An open and collaborative documentary on the way the Web is changing our lives.
"; a sioc:Post.The Prime Minister has announced the appointment of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt as expert advisers on public information delivery. The announcement was part of a statement on constitutional reform made in the House of Commons on June 11th.
"; a sioc:Post.In an article in The Times, WSRI director Nigel Shadbolt tells us how we should keep an eye on the powers watching us.
"; a sioc:Post.Leading computer scientist and WSRI director Wendy Hall tells Anthea Lipsett why she accepted a damehood, but doesn't Twitter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jun/02/interview-wendy-hall
"; a sioc:Post.Dame Wendy Hall DBE, Professor of Computer Science in the University of Southampton, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, it is announced today (Friday 15 May).
"; a sioc:Post.A PhD student from the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, England has received a prestigious Fellowship award from the Schlumberger Foundation.
"; a sioc:Post.Tim Berners-Lee's speech before the Knight Foundation is available here.
Washington, D.C. (USA) 15 September 2008
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, unveiled today the World Wide Web Foundation, to fulfill a vision of the Web as humanity connected by technology. The mission of the Foundation is:
"; a sioc:Post.In their recent list of the fifty most influential individuals in the worldwide technology and IT industries, Silicon.com have named WSRI director Tim Berners-Lee as the number one agenda setter of 2008, ahead of Google CEO, Eric Schmidt and Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs.
The Agenda Setters panel praised Berners-Lee for being \"a guardian and promoter of the fundamental social and technical innovation of our era, who is still pushing its boundaries and continues to set the agenda\".
"; a sioc:Post.BT today became a founding sponsor of the Web Science Research Initiative, an international body established to promote the science and development of the World Wide Web. Established by British Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web with co-directors Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall and Danny Weitzner. The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) exists to promote the study of ‘Web Science’, a new academic discipline focusing on the analysis, engineering and social impact of the World Wide Web.
"; a sioc:Post.Original source, 7th July 2008
The National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) has announced a partnership with the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) which will see the two organisations work together to safeguard the Web as a platform for collaboration and innovation.
"; a sioc:Post.A Southampton professor has been elected president of the world's largest educational and scientific computing society - the first time in 60 years a person outside North America has held the position.
Professor Wendy Hall was announced as the new President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
"; a sioc:Post.NESTA has provided funding to assist in the establishment of WSRI as an autonomous unit and to provide administrative and operational support and to further drive the strategic development of WSRI in partnership with corporate bodies, governments and academia.
"; a sioc:Post.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, to be held on 18 March, 2008. Interested parties are encouraged to submit a position paper by February 22nd; details can be found in the CFP.
See also other upcoming WSRI events.
"; a sioc:Post.WSRI is taking part in the OII Summer Doctoral Programme through the WSRI Exchange Programme. Doctoral students interested in participating should read through the linked page for details.
"; a sioc:Post.Tim Berners-Lee gave the British Computer Society's Lovelace Lecture, an annual lecture given by that year's winner of the society's Lovelace Medal. You can view the lecture titled \"The Web: Looking Forward, Looking Back,\" given on March 13, 2007.
"; a sioc:Post.The University of Southampton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced the launch of a long-term research collaboration that aims to produce the fundamental scientific advances necessary to guide the future design and use of the World Wide Web.
"; a sioc:Post.Professor Noshir Contractor, the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, USA, and one of the world’s leading network scientists, is now a Director of the Web Science Trust.
"; a sioc:Post.Professor David De Roure has been appointed to the new role of the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) National Strategic Director of e-Social Science.
"; a sioc:Post.The next stage of the web’s evolution presents huge business opportunities, say Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt, in an article in Computing magazine.
"; a sioc:Post.World Wide Web Foundation launched global operations and announced its first ambitious projects at the 2009 Internet Governance Forum.
"; a sioc:Post.We Science Trust Directors Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt are behind the significant change in UK policy towards public data announced by the Prime Minster yesterday (17 November).
"; a sioc:Post.Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt will give the opening keynote at the Online Information Conference 2009 at Olympia, London, on 1 December.
"; a sioc:Post.Speaking yesterday at No.10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, announced that he had asked Professor Nigel Shadbolt of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton to lead a panel of experts who will oversee the release of local public data, ensuring that it is linked effectively across relevant agencies, authorities and government departments.
"; a sioc:Post.Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt have played a key role in the development of the new data.gov.uk web site launched today by the UK Government.
"; a sioc:Post.The first episode of BBC's landmark series Virtual Revolution airs 830pm on BB2 Saturday January 30th. Web Science has played a formative role in shaping this series. Professor Nigel Shadbolt acted as Series Consultant and appears with Sir Tim Berner-Lee. We will be linking the issues raised by the series into a range of material here at the Web Science Trust site.
"; a sioc:Post.The Web Science Trust has been granted charitable status, in a move which will enable greater focused, global development of the discipline.
"; a sioc:Post.Research on the development and future of the World Wide Web is featured in a new BBC season of programmes, Superpower, which began on Monday 8 March and runs for two weeks.
"; a sioc:Post.The UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has re-appointed Professor Dame Wendy Hall to the Council for Science and Technology (CST).
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingThe World Wide Web is becoming as important to the future of humankind as free speech, Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the BBC.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingVodafone is donating $1M towards projects that will train entrepreneurs in Africa to leverage the Web as a platform for delivering locally relevant content, applications and services.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingThe Government today announced the creation of the new Institute for Web Science.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingThe Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced £30M of funding to take forward research on the next generation of the World Wide Web.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingThe Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Laboratory at Northwestern University invites applications for up to three post doctoral positions.
"; a sioc:Post.Troy, N.Y. – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has launched the nation’s first undergraduate degree program devoted to the emerging interdisciplinary field of Web Science. The new academic major expands the current Information Technology degree program to create both a bachelor’s degree, and a master’s concentration, in “Information Technology and Web Science.” The students in the interdisciplinary degree program will investigate issues on the Web related to security, trust, privacy, content value, and the development of the Web of the future.
"; a sioc:Post.A new international network announced yesterday (Monday 26 April 2010) creates an alliance of world-class research laboratories to support the Web Science research and education programme.
"; a sioc:Post.'Web visionaries meet in Raleigh ...' was one of the top stories on WRAL Fox News as a series of associated World Wide Web conferences began in the city's convention centre. Wendy Hall was interviewed about WebSci10, and Kathy Green of WWW10 spoke about the prestige value of the conferences. Twitter feeds on all the conferences are available; Watch the WRAL video.
"; a sioc:Post.Awards for Best Paper and Best Poster were made yesterday at WebSci10 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Best Paper went to Panagiotis Metaxas and Eni Mustafaraj for their paper From Obscurity to Prominence in Minutes: Political Speech and Real-Time Search.
Best Poster went to Balthasar Schopman and colleagues for their poster NoTube: Making Personalized TV Part of the Web.
Congratulations to the winners and all the other presenters at WebSci10 for making the conference stimulating and enjoyable.
"; a sioc:Post.A long article in the New Scientist (5 May) reflects on WebSci10 and explores the ideas and vision of Web Science. 'The Web is too important not to understand,' says Professor Nigel Shadbolt.
"; a sioc:Post.The use of Twitter in the recent Massachusetts senatorial elections is highlighted by Professor P. Takis Metaxas, who won Best Paper Prize at the WebSci10 conference, with Eni Mustafaraj. Professor Metaxas says that in this context Twitter-bombs can result in \"disproportionate exposure to personal opinions, fabricated content, unverified events, lies and misrepresentations that would otherwise not find their way in the first page (of Google search results), giving them the opportunity to spread virally\".
"; a sioc:Post.Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Professor Nigel Shadbolt are key speakers at FutureEverything 2010 which takes place this week (12-15 May) in Manchester.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingProfessor Dame Wendy Hall and Professor Nigel Shadbolt are key speakers at FutureEverything 2010 which takes place this week (12-15 May) in Manchester.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingRensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been selected to join a new international network of prestigious world-class research laboratories to support the growing field of Web science research and education programs.
"; a sioc:Post.
The White House on Friday 21 May cited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for its leadership role in using the Web to promote government transparency. The announcement was made at an event in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the open government Web site, Data.gov.
"; a sioc:Post.It was announced on Monday 31 May that Professor Nigel Shadbolt and Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be members of the UK Government's new Public Sector Transparency Board.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingThe way the internet has transformed society and how it could develop in the future, will be discussed by Professor David De Roure at a free event in Aberdeen, Scotland, this week.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingThe British Computer Society, the Chartered Institute for IT, is celebrating Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, in a high-profile campaign on Information Pioneers.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingThe unique contribution to research and innovation of Professor Wendy Hall, Managing Director of the Trust, has been recognized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingSir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Dame Wendy Hall have been taking part in the Royal Society’s 'See Further: Festival of Science + Arts' at the South Bank Centre, London, this week, and Professor Nigel Shadbolt has been taking part in the Guardian 'Activate 2010' conference, also in London.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingWST Director Nigel Shadbolt tells Charles Arthur of The Guardian about the next phase of his drive to open up government data. After success earlier this year with national government, now comes the tricky task of securing the release of local government information.
"; a sioc:Post.(9 July 2010) When the World Wide Web went live in 1991, it consisted of static pages of text connected to each other by hyperlinks, and that's pretty much what it remained for years. But from the outset, the Web's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, had envisioned a much more sophisticated Web, a so-called Semantic Web, which wouldn't just store data but would actually know what it meant ...
"; a sioc:Post.(13 September 2010) Web Science is quoted by Matt Mead of NESTA as an example of a key indicator of renewed innovation in the UK tech sector after the 2008-9 downturn.
Appetite for innovation returns
"; a sioc:Post.As part of the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary celebrations a two-day discussion meeting on Web Science will take place in London on 27 and 28 September. The Royal Society discussion meetings address the major scientific questions of the 21st century, aiming to identify and map out vital subjects that will help set the agenda for future generations of scientists.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:sibling(27 September 2010) To Chris Baker, the World Wide Web's existence has been like 'the birth of a new planet'.
"; a sioc:Post.
Speaking at ‘Web Science: A new frontier’ in London yesterday, Sir Tim Berners-Lee warned of the dangers posed to the future of the Internet by the growing powers of government and business.
"; a sioc:Post.(29 September 2010) Bill Thompson reports on the Royal Society Discussion Meeting, Web Science: A new frontier, where he was one of the Twitter Chairs: \"I'm becoming more convinced that it is worth pulling together people from the many disciplines assembled at this conference and helping them to see how they all hold different pieces of the puzzle, and that the Web Science Trust is doing an important job at this critical time in the emergence of the networked world.\"
"; a sioc:Post.(1 October 2010) \"I STILL DO HATE COMPUTERS,\" says Wendy Hall. Ironic, since she is one of the most distinguished computer scientists in the country... Wendy Grossman interviews Wendy Hall and hears about her passion for the World Wide Web and Web Science.
"; a sioc:Post.(1 October 2010) The Guardian Technology Blog reports on Professor Manuel Castells' talk at 'Web Science: The new frontier', at the Royal Society, London, on 27 and 28 September.
Mobile internet will outstrip 'desktop' use by 2014, says ex-Obama adviser
"; a sioc:Post.(1 October 2010) \"Anyone who realizes how important the Web is,\" Tim Berners-Lee said on Tuesday, \"has a duty of care.\" He was wrapping up a two-day discussion meeting at the Royal Society. The subject: Web science. Wendy Grossman reports on Web Science: A new frontier.
"; a sioc:Post.(6 October 2010) At a Royal Society symposium on web science this week, Tim Berners-Lee let slip an interesting observation. Many people, said the web's inventor, no longer make a distinction between Facebook and the web.
"; a sioc:Post.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.\"
Salzburg: Steve Bratt and the Web Foundation
"; a sioc:Post.(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.
Tim Berners-Lee makes Times top science list
"; a sioc:Post.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 ...'
"; a sioc:Post.(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.
Making the World Wide Web more Usable to a Wider World
"; a sioc:Post.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.
(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.\"
Rensselaer team shows how to analyze raw government data
"; a sioc:Post.Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of when the World Wide Web went live on his desktop, ECS Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has issued a powerful warning of threats to the Web’s egalitarian principles – particularly from social networking sites and Government, and wireless Internet providers.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingBehaviour and morals online, including this week’s Wikileaks scenario, will be discussed at a workshop on Ethics and the World Wide Web, which will be held at the Foyle Centre in the British Library tomorrow (Thursday 2 December).
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:sibling(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.
"; a sioc:Post.A new report on future science from the Royal Society, London, features Web Science as one of the key areas of scientific exploration this century.
"; a sioc:Post.The Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUI Galway will be holding the second Web Science Trust Doctoral Summer School from 6 to 13 July 2011.
"; a sioc:Post.
\"A Semantic Sommelier: Wine Application Highlights the Power of Web 3.0\"
Professor Deborah McGuinness explains how using using cutting edge artificial intelligence has enabled her to create a wine agent program that she is also able to use as a semantic tutorial.
"; a sioc:Post.The White House Office of Science and Technology’s policy will soon have a new member of staff as Daniel Weitzner takes on the role of Deputy CTO for Internet Policy.
"; a sioc:Post.Professor Helen Margetts has been awarded an ESRC Professorial Fellowship for 'The Internet and Political Science: re-examining collective action, governance and citizen-government interactions in the digital era', which will last three years.
"; a sioc:Post.Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web and a Founder Director of the Web Science Trust, was honoured last night at a special 80th birthday celebration for former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:siblingWST Directors Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Professor Nigel Shadbolt hosted a private dinner this week at the Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre, coinciding with the WWW 2011 Conference.
"; a sioc:Post.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.
"; a sioc:Post.The Third International Workshop on Network Theory: Web Science Meets Network Science, took place at Northwestern University.
"; a sioc:Post.The Tsinghua-Southampton Web Science Laboratory at Shenzhen hosted a Symposium \"Web: Science and Industry\" on 5 May 2011.
"; a sioc:Post.Web Science is one of the main opportunities for ensuring the healthy development of the future Web, according to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, keynote speaker at the conference ‘Profiting from the New Web’, held in London this week.
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:sibling(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
"; a sioc:Post.The third conference in the annual Web Science series began yesterday (Wednesday 15 July) in Koblenz, Germany. This is the first conference in the series to be officially designated an ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) event.
"; a sioc:Post.On June 14th-17th, the Third International ACM Web Science Conference was held in the city of Koblenz, Germany, for the first time as an ACM conference.
ACM WebSci'11: Video Lectures are now available online http://videolectures.net/acmwebsci2011_koblenz/
"; a sioc:Post.The Atlantic reports on Mark Bernstein's talk at ACM Web Science Conference.
"; a sioc:Post.(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.
Something Entertaining, If You're Feeling Smart
"; a sioc:Post; sioc:sibling(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.
Social Climber: Google challenges Facebook
"; a sioc:Post.The Digital Enlightenment Forum Asbl is a Not-for-Profit organisation founded under Luxembourg Law in Brussels by: Jacques Bus, Kim Cameron, Willie Donnelly, Mireille Hildebrandt, George Metakides, Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, Reinhard Posch and Kai Rannenberg.
"; a sioc:Post.Please see Jodi Scheider's report on the Doctoral Summer School which was held in DERI, Ireland in July of this year.
"; a sioc:Post.Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor of Computer Science in ECS-Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, has been named as one of 10 trailblazers in artificial intelligence research and inducted into the inaugural IEEE Intelligent Systems Hall of Fame. In addition to Sir Tim, inventor of the World Wide Web, the list includes world-leading AI pioneers Noam Chomsky, Douglas Engelbart, and Marvin Minsky.
"; a sioc:Post.October 28, Glasgow, UK, The Second International Workshop on Web Science and Information Exchange in the Medical Web (MedEX 2011)
"; a sioc:Post.The Ford Foundation Board of Trustees today announced the election of two new members, Martin Eakes and Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
"; a sioc:Post.The new Institute will be based in Shoreditch, the newly designated 'Tech City UK' area of London, where there is a huge concentration of Web 2.0 start-ups, and it will involve business and academic institutions.
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