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Professors Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee named as co-directors of a new world-leading Open Data Institute
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.
Tim Berners-Lee and Martin Eakes join Ford Foundation Board
The Ford Foundation Board of Trustees today announced the election of two new members, Martin Eakes and Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
The Second International Workshop on Web Science and Information Exchange in the Medical Web (MedEX 2011)
MedEX 2011 Workshop
October 28, Glasgow, UK, The Second International Workshop on Web Science and Information Exchange in the Medical Web (MedEX 2011)
Sir Tim Berners-Lee inducted to IEEE Computer Society Artificial Intelligence ‘Hall of Fame’
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.
Web Science Doctoral Summer School at DERI
Please see Jodi Scheider's report on the Doctoral Summer School which was held in DERI, Ireland in July of this year.
Announcing the 'Digital Enlightenment Forum'
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.
Something Entertaining, If You're Feeling Smart
The Atlantic reports on Mark Bernstein's talk at ACM Web Science Conference.
ACM Web Science Conference concludes
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/
WebSci11 opens in Koblenz, Germany
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.
Web Science - helping ensure the healthy development of the future Web
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.