Sir 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.

The unique contribution to research and innovation of Professor Wendy Hall, Managing Director of the Trust, has been recognized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

The 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.

The 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.

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.

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.

Rensselaer 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.

Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Professor Nigel Shadbolt are key speakers at FutureEverything 2010 which takes place this week (12-15 May) in Manchester.

Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Professor Nigel Shadbolt are key speakers at FutureEverything 2010 which takes place this week (12-15 May) in Manchester.

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".