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0 Dame Wendy Hall Wendy Hall, DBE, FREng, FRS is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. She was Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) from 2002 to 2007. One of the first computer scientists to undertake serious research in multimedia and hypermedia, she has been at its forefront ever since. The influence of her work has been significant in many areas including digital libraries, the development of the Semantic Web, and the emerging research discipline of Web Science. Her current research includes applications of the Semantic Web and exploring the interface between the life sciences and the physical sciences. She is a Founding Director, along with Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel J. Weitzner, of the Web Science Research Initiative. In addition to playing a prominent role in the development of her subject, she also helps shape science and engineering policy and education. Through her leadership roles on national and international bodies, she has shattered many glass ceilings, readily deploying her position on numerous national and international bodies to promote the role of women in SET, and acting as an important role model for others. She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2009 UK New Year's Honours list and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the same year.  She was also the recipient of the 2009 Duncan Davies Medal which was awarded by the Research and Development Society. She was elected President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in July 2008, and is the first person from outside North America to hold this position. Until July 2008, she was Senior Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, is currently a member of the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology, and is a founder member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council. She was President of the British Computer Society (2003-4) and an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow from 1996 to 2002. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~wh/

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0 Sir Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee graduated from <a href="http://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/">the Queen's College</a> at Oxford University, England, 1976. Whilst there he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. He spent two years with Plessey Telecommunications Ltd (Poole, Dorset, UK) a major UK Telecom equipment manufacturer, working on distributed transaction systems, message relays, and bar code technology. In 1978 Tim left Plessey to join D.G Nash Ltd (Ferndown, Dorset, UK), where he wrote among other things typesetting software for intelligent printers, and a multitasking operating system. A year and a half spent as an independent consultant included a six month stint (Jun-Dec 1980) as consultant software engineer at <a href="http://www.cern.ch/">CERN</a>, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Whilst there, he wrote for his own private use his first program for storing information including using random associations. Named "Enquire", and never published, this program formed the conceptual basis for the future development of the World Wide Web. From 1981 until 1984, Tim worked at John Poole's Image Computer Systems Ltd, with technical design responsibility. Work here included real time control firmware, graphics and communications software, and a generic macro language. In 1984, he took up a fellowship at CERN, to work on distributed real-time systems for scientific data acquisition and system control. Among other things, he worked on FASTBUS system software and designed a heterogeneous remote procedure call system. In 1989, he proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. Based on the earlier "Enquire" work, it was designed to allow people to work together by combining their knowledge in a web of hypertext documents. He wrote the first World Wide Web server, "httpd", and the first client, "WorldWideWeb" a what-you-see-is-what-you-get hypertext browser/editor which ran in the NeXTStep environment. This work was started in October 1990, and the program "WorldWideWeb" first made available within CERN in December, and on the Internet at large in the summer of 1991. Through 1991 and 1993, Tim continued working on the design of the Web, coordinating feedback from users across the Internet. His initial specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined and discussed in larger circles as the Web technology spread. In 1994, Tim founded the <a href="http://www.w3.org/">World Wide Web Consortium</a> at the then Laboratory for Computer Science (<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/">LCS</a>) which merged with the Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2003 to become the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/">CSAIL</a>) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (<a href="http://web.mit.edu/">MIT</a>). Since that time he has served as the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium a Web standards organization which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. The Consortium has host sites located at MIT, at <a href="http://www.ercim.org/">ERCIM</a> in Europe, and at Keio University in Japan as well as <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/">Offices </a>around the world.   In 1999, he became the first holder of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/3ComFounders.html">3Com Founders</a> chair. He is currently the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at CSAIL where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (<a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/">DIG</a>). In December 2004 he was named a Professor in the <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">Computer Science Department</a> at the University of Southampton, UK. He was a Founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), a joint endeavour between the University of Southampton and MIT, and is a Director and Trustee of the Web Science Trust (<a href="../../home.html">WST</a>). He is a Director of the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/">World Wide Web Foundation</a>, started in 2008 to fund and coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.   In 2001 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has been the recipient of several international awards including the Japan Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany's Die Quadriga award. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit. In 2009 he was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.    In <a href="http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item98">June 2009</a> Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that Tim Berners-Lee will work with the UK Government to help make data more open and accessible on the Web, building on the work of the <a href="http://powerofinformation.wordpress.com/">Power of Information Task Force</a>.   He is the author of "<a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/Overview.html">Weaving the Web</a>", on the the past, present and future of the Web. http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Overview.html

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0 Christopher Gutteridge <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg">Christopher Gutteridge</a> is Web Projects Manager for the <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">School of Electronics and Computer Science</a> at the <a href="http://www.soton.ac.uk/">University of Southampton</a> and has been working full-time on university web systems since 1997. He ran the website for the <a href="http://www2006.org">2006 International WWW Conference</a> and assisted with the <a href="http://www2007.org">2007 website</a>, and the <a href="http://www2009.eprints.org/">2009 Conference Repository</a>. Chris is also the lead developer of the award-winning <a href="http://eprints.org/software/">EPrints Software</a> which, as part of the <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/overview.htm">Open Access</a> movement has helped improve the world's access to research papers and other scholarly material. EPrints is used by around 200 universities, and other organisations, around the world and has been translated into more than ten languages. Along with Tony Hirst, from the Open University, he runs <a href="http://SplashURL.net/">SplashURL.net</a> - which provides convenient tools to get long URLs from one computer to another visually, specifically when doing a live demo with A URL too long for the audience to type in. In his spare time he developed a non-commercial <abbr title="Massively Multiplayer Online Role Play Game">MMORPG</abbr> called <a href="http://cities.totl.net/">Cities</a> and hopes that nobody will find out that he wrote the filter for the <a href="http://gimp.org/">GIMP image package</a> which adds coffee cup rings to pictures. http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg

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0 Sir John Taylor Sir John Taylor, OBE, FRS, FREng In December 2003, John Taylor completed his five year term as Director General of Research Councils, responsible for the UK Science Budget and the seven Research Councils funding research across the whole spectrum of science and technology in the UK science and engineering base. He was formerly Director of Hewlett Packard Laboratories Bristol, where he developed major programs of research in areas including internet security, wireless communications, telecommunications, personal digital imaging, software engineering and mathematics. Earlier, he lead various research groups at RSRE and ARE in secure computing and communications, command and control. He was chairman of Roke Manor Research Ltd from 2004-2010, and in May 2009 became Chairman of the Web Science Trust. He was a non-executive Director on the main board of Rolls Royce from 2004-2007 and a member of the Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering from 2004-2007. He is an honorary fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and was a visiting professor at Oxford University from 2004-2009. He was knighted in 2004 for services to scientific research and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was President of the the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now the IET) in 1998-9 and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and the Institute of Physics. He was chair of the UK South West Regional Development Agency's Shadow Science and Industry Council in 2004-5. He chaired the UK Technology Foresight Panel in IT Electronics and Communications (ITEC) until December 1998 and led the UK Foresight project on Cognitive Systems in 2002-3. He launched the UK e-Science program in 2001.

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0 Susan Davies   Susan Davies is the Administration Manager for the Web Science Trust.  She is based at the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK.  From 2000-2006, she was the Administrative Coordinator for Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT), a multi-million pound EPSRC-funded Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration.  She was the administrator for the Web Science Research Initiative between its inception in November 2006 and November 2009.

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0 Harold (Hal) Abelson <a href="http://swissnet.csail.mit.edu/users/hal">Harold (Hal) Abelson</a> is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from MIT. In 1992, Abelson was designated as one of MIT's six inaugural MacVicar Faculty Fellows, in recognition of his significant and sustained contributions to teaching and undergraduate education. Abelson was a recipient in 1992 of the Bose Award (MIT's School of Engineering teaching award). Abelson is also the winner of the 1995 Taylor L. Booth Education Award given by IEEE Computer Society, cited for his continued contributions to the pedagogy and teaching of introductory computer science. He is co-director of the <a href="http://icampus.mit.edu/">MIT-Microsoft iCampus Research Alliance in Eductional Technology</a>, co-chair of the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/cet/">MIT Council on Educational Technology</a>, and serves on the steering committee of the <a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/mit/">HP-MIT Alliance</a>. In these capacities, he played key roles in fostering MIT institutional educational technology initiatives such <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/">MIT OpenCourseWare</a> and <a href="http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/">DSpace</a>. He also consults to HP Laboratories in the area of digital information systems. Abelson has a broad interest in information technology and policy, and developed and teaches the MIT course <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-805JEthics-and-Law-on-the-Electronic-FrontierSpring2002/CourseHome/index.htm">Ethicsand Law on the Electronic Frontier</a>. He is a founding director of <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> and <a href="http://publicknowledge.org/">Public Knowledge</a>, and he was a founding director of the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>. Together, these three organizations are devoted to strengthening our intellectual commons. Abelson has a longstanding interest in using computation as a conceptual framework in teaching. He directed the first implementation of Logo for the Apple Computer, which made the language widely available on personal computers beginning in 1981; and published a widely selling book on Logo in 1982. His book Turtle Geometry, written with Andrea diSessa in 1981, presented a computational approach to geometry has been cited as "the first step in a revolutionary change in the entire teaching/learning process." Together with <a href="http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/%7Egjs/gjs.html">Gerald Sussman</a>, Abelson developed MIT's introductory computer science subject, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, a subject organized around the notion that a computer language is primarily a formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology, rather than just a way to get a computer to perform operations. This work, through a popular <a href="http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/sicp">computer science textbook</a> by Abelson and Gerald and Julie Sussman, <a href="http://swissnet.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures">videos of their lectures</a>, and the availability on personal computers of the <a href="http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/scheme">Scheme dialect of Lisp</a> (used in teaching the course), has had a world-wide impact on university computer-science education. Abelson and Sussman also cooperate in codirecting the <a href="http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/">MIT Project on Mathematics and Computation</a>. whose goal is to create better computational tools for scientists and engineers. Current group projects include the study of <a href="http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/projects/amorphous">amorphous computing</a>. The objective of this research proposed is to create foundational programming technology for reliably obtaining coherent, prespecified behavior from vast numbers of unreliable information-processing units, irregularly arranged and interconnected in unknown and time-varying ways. Success in this research would have revolutionary impact by creating the system architectures and algorithms for information-processing agents that can be constructed at prices comparable to the raw material costs -- for example, coating bridges or buildings with "smart paint" that senses and reports on traffic and wind loads and monitors structural integrity, or "intelligent blocks" that assemble themselves into prespecified three-dimensional shapes. http://swissnet.csail.mit.edu/users/hal

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1 Jonathan Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he co-founded its Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society. He is on the board of advisors for Scientific American. Previously he was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. He performed the first large-scale tests of Internet filtering in China and Saudi Arabia in 2002, and now as part of the OpenNet Initiative he has co-edited a study of Internet filtering by national governments, "Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering." His book "The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It" was released last year from Yale University Press and Penguin UK -- and under a Creative Commons license. Papers may be found at <a href="http://www.jz.org/">http://www.jz.org/</a> http://www.jz.org/

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1 Yorick Wilks <a href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Eyorick">Yorick Wilks</a> is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield and Director of ILASH, the Institute of Language, Speech and Hearing, since 1993. He is alsoa Senior Research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute at Balliol College. During the period 1985-93 he was the first Director of the Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State University, which became a major US centre for research in artificial intelligence and its applications to natural language processing. He was a researcher at Stanford AI Laboratory, a SERC Senior Fellow at Edinburgh University, and then Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics at the University of Essex. He has published numerous articles and six books in that area of artificial intelligence, of which the most recent are Artificial Believers (1991 with Afzal Ballim) from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates and Electric Words: dictionaries, computers and meanings (1996 with Brian Slator and Louise Guthrie) from MIT Press. He has also produced recent edited collections Machine Conversations (2000, Kluwer) and Readings in Machine Translation (2003 with Sergei Nirenburg and Harold Somers). He is also a Fellow of the American and European Associations for Artificial Intelligence, a member of the EPSRC College of Computing, a member of the UK Computing Research Council and on the boards of some fifteen AI-related journals. He designed CONVERSE, the dialogue system that won the Loebner prize in New York in 1998, and is currently Coordinator of the EU 6th Framework integrated project COMPANIONS (4 years, 15 sites, 1.3meuro) on conversational assistants as personalised and permanent web interfaces. http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick

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1 Fei-Yue Wang Fei-Yue Wang received his Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York in 1990. He joined the University of Arizona in 1990 and became a Professor and the Director of the Program for Advanced Research in Complex Systems (PARCS) in 1999. In 1999, he founded the Intelligent Control and Systems Engineering Center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, under the support of the Outstanding Oversea Chinese Talents Program. Since 2002, he is the Director of the Key Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is the Vice President for research, education, and academic exchange at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His current research interests include social computing, web and services science, modeling, analysis, and control of complex systems, especially social and physical/cyber systems. He was the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems from 1995 to 2000, Editor in Charge of the Series in Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation from 1996 to 2004, EiC, Associate EiC, or Associate Editors of 10 IEEE Transactions and Magazines. Since 1997, he has served as General or Program Chair of more than 20 IEEE, INFORMS, ACM, ASME international conferences. He was the President of IEEE ITS Society from 2005 to 2007 and the President of Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST, USA) in 2005. Currently, he is the President of the American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation. Dr. Wang is a member of Sigma Xi and an elected Fellow of IEEE, INCOSE, IFAC, ASME, and AAAS. In 2007, he received the National Prize in Natural Sciences of China and was elected as the Outstanding Scientist by ACM for his work in intelligent control and social computing.

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1 Gerry Sussman <a href="http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/%7Egjs/">Gerald Jay Sussman</a> is the Panasonic (formerly Matsushita) Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the S.B. and the Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 and 1973, respectively. He has been involved in artificial intelligence research at M.I.T. since 1964. His research has centered on understanding the problem-solving strategies used by scientists and engineers, with the goals of automating parts of the process and formalizing it to provide more effective methods of science and engineering education. Sussman has also worked in computer languages, in computer architecture and in VLSI design. Sussman is a coauthor (with Hal Abelson and Julie Sussman) of the introductory computer science textbook used at M.I.T. The textbook, "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," has been translated into French, German, Chinese, Polish, and Japanese. As a result of this and other contributions to computer-science education, Sussman received the ACM's Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 1990, and the Amar G. Bose award for teaching in 1991. Sussman's contributions to Artificial Intelligence include problem solving by debugging almost-right plans, propagation of constraints applied to electrical circuit analysis and synthesis, dependency-based explanation and dependency-based backtracking, and various language structures for expressing problem-solving strategies. Sussman and his former student, Guy L. Steele Jr., invented the Scheme programming language in 1975. Sussman saw that Artificial Intelligence ideas can be applied to computer-aided design. Sussman developed, with his graduate students, sophisticated computer-aided design tools for VLSI. Steele made the first Scheme chips in 1978. These ideas and the AI-based CAD technology to support them were further developed in the Scheme chips of 1979 and 1981. The technique and experience developed was then used to design other special-purpose computers. Sussman was the principal designer of the Digital Orrery, a machine designed to do high-precision integrations for orbital-mechanics experiments. The Orrery was designed and built by a few people in a few months, using AI-based simulation and compilation tools. Using the Digital Orrery, Sussman has worked with Jack Wisdom to discover numerical evidence for chaotic motions in the outer planets. The Digital Orrery is now retired at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Sussman was also the lead designer of the Supercomputer Toolkit, another multiprocessor computer optimized for evolving systems of ordinary differential equations. The Supercomputer Toolkit was used by Sussman and Wisdom to confirm and extend the discoveries made with the Digital Orrery to include the entire planetary system. Sussman has pioneered the use of computational descriptions to communicate methodological ideas in teaching subjects in Electrical Circuits and in Signals and Systems. Over the past decade Sussman and Wisdom have developed a subject that uses computational techniques to communicate a deeper understanding of advanced Classical Mechanics. Computational algorithms are used to express the methods used in the analysis of dynamical phenomena. Expressing the methods in a computer language forces them to be unambiguous and computationally effective. Students are expected to read our programs and to extend them and to write new ones. The task of formulating a method as a computer-executable program and debugging that program is a powerful exercise in the learning process. Also, once formalized procedurally, a mathematical idea becomes a tool that can be used directly to compute results. Sussman and Wisdom, with Meinhard Mayer, have produced a textbook, "Structure andInterpretation of Classical Mechanics," to capture these ideas. Sussman is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). He is also a bonded locksmith, a life member of the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute (AWI), a member of the Massachusetts Watchmakers-Clockmakers Association, a member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston (ATMOB), and a member of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~gjs/

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1 Ben Shneiderman <a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/%7Eben">Ben Shneiderman</a> is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the <a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/">Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory</a> at the University of Maryland. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM ) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Ben is the author of Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (1980) and <a href="http://www.awl.com/DTUI/">Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction</a> (4th ed. 2004). He pioneered the highlighted textual link in 1983, and it became part of Hyperties, a precursor to the web. His move into information visualization helped spawn the successful company <a href="http://www.spotfire.com/">Spotfire</a>. He is a technical advisor for the HiveGroup and ILOG. With S Card and J. Mackinlay, he co-authored Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (1999). His books include Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies (MIT Press), which won the IEEE Distinguished Literary Contribution award in 2004. http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben

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1 Guus Schreiber <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Eguus/">Schreiber</a> studied medicine at the University of Utrecht. After working two years at the University of Leiden in the Medical Informatics department he joined in 1986 the <a href="http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/">SWI</a> group at the University of Amsterdam, where he was involved in research on knowledge engineering. In 1992 he was awarded a Ph.D. on a thesis entitled <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Eguus/#thesis">"Pragmatics of the Knowledge Level"</a>. He has been involved in numerous European and Dutch research projects, including KADS & KADS-II (both on methodologies for knowledge-system development), REFLECT (reflective reasoning), GAMES (medical knowledge systems), KACTUS (technical ontologies), IBROW (Intelligent Brokering on the Web) and MIA (Multimedia Information Analysis). He has published some 100 articles and books. In 2000 he published with MIT Press a textbook on knowledge engineering and knowledge management, based on the CommonKADS methodology. Guus Schreiber is now a professor of Intelligent Information Systems at the Free University Amsterdam. He is chair of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group and co-chair of W3C's Web Ontology Working Group and member of the Semantic Web Coordination Group of W3C. He is also Scientific Director of the IST Network of Excellence "Knowledge Web". http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/

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1 Vladimiro Sassone <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/%7Evs/">Vladimiro Sassone</a> is professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. His research activity concerns the foundations of mobile, distributed systems, and aims at underpinning the development of robust, high-level paradigms for global ubiquitous computing. His interests span over semantics, type theory, logics, formal methods and, in general, the foundations of computer science, with main focus on languages and models for concurrency. His main contributions include abstract categorical models of causation in distributed computation; security via typing in systems for access control; semantic theories, models, and behavioural equivalence techniques for reactive systems; models and calculi for trust management systems; distributed, structural and resource logics. He participated in several UK projects, as Third-Party Resource Usage for Pervasive Computing and Pervasive Computing Support for Market Trading, was the international coordinator of the EU-FET project MyThS: Models and Types for Security in Distributed Systems and the director of the EU Marie Curie Research Training Centre DisCo: Foundations of Distributed Computation. He is member of the Council of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the EATCS, member of the steering committee for the UK Grand Challenge for Computing Research on Ubiquitous Computing and of ETAPS, the European joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~vs/

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1 Thomas Malone <a href="http://cci.mit.edu/malone">Thomas W. Malone</a> is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He was also the founder and director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century". Professor Malone teaches classes on leadership and information technology, and his research focuses on how new organizations can be designed to take advantage of the possibilities provided by information technology. The past two decades of Professor Malone&sbquo;Äôs research are summarized in his critically acclaimed book, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life (Harvard Business School Press, 2004). Professor Malone has also published over 75 articles, research papers, and book chapters; he is an inventor with 11 patents; and he is the co-editor of three books. Malone has been a co-founder of three software companies and has consulted and served as a board member for a number of other organizations. His background includes work as a research scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a PhD from Stanford University, and degrees in applied mathematics, engineering, and psychology. http://cci.mit.edu/malone

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1 David Karger <a href="http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/%7Ekarger/">David R. Karger</a> David R. Karger is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT's <a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/">Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</a>. He earned his PhD at Stanford University in 1994, and has since done research in a variety of areas including algorithms, machine learning, information retrieval, coding and communication, networking, peer to peer systems, and human-computer interaction. A constant interest, however, has been to make it easier for people to create, find, organize, manipulate, and share information. To this end he organized the Haystack group and led the development of a system of the same name. The Haystack system was one of the first "semantic desktops", using a semantic-web underlay to provide end-users with a unified information management application for their personal information. His group continues to research tools and techniques to help end-users manage information. He is also one of the PIs on MIT's SIMILE project, a collaboration developing semantic-web tools to improve the management and retrieval of information at the institutional level. http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~karger/

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1 Nick Jennings <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/%7Enrj/">Nick Jennings</a> is Professor of Computer Science in the <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/">5*-rated </a><a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">School of Electronics and Computer Science </a>at <a href="http://www.soton.ac.uk/">Southampton University </a>where he carries out research in agent-based computing and complex adaptive systems. He is Deputy Head of School (Research), Head of the <a href="http://www.iam.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia </a>Group (which consists of some 120 research staff and postgraduate students), Director of the BAE Systems / EPSRC Strategic Partnership on <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/projects/aladdin">Decentralised Data and Information Systems</a>, and the Chief Scientific Officer for <a href="http://www.lostwax.com/">Lost Wax</a>. Professor Jennings helped pioneer the application of multi-agent technology; developing some of the first real-world systems. This focus led him into the areas of agent-based software engineering and the <a href="http://www.semanticgrid.org/brief">Semantic Grid</a>. More recently, his focus is on automated bargaining, auctions, markets, mechanism design, coalition formation, decentralised control, and trust and reputation. Professor Jennings has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences (including: IJCAI, OOPSLA, ICMAS, PRICAI, AAMAS), he co-initiated the <a href="http://www.autonomousagents.org/">ACM's Autonomous Agents Conference </a>and the <a href="http://www.atal.org/">Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL)</a> workshop series. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/%28w3i4womvzp1uvz2h1u3z0gny%29/app/home/journal.asp?referrer=parent&backto=linkingpublicationresults,1:102852,1">International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems </a>and is on the editorial boards of: ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Computational Intelligence, Journal of Logic and Computation, The Knowledge Engineering Review, Int. Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Int. Journal of Web Semantics, Int. Journal of Applied Logic and the Int Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of <a href="http://www.dfki.de/">the German AI Institute (DFKI)</a>, a series editor for Springer-Verlag's <a href="http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,3-146-69-1195190-0,00.html">Agent Technology series</a>, and a founding director of the <a href="http://www.ifmas.org/">International Foundation for Multi-Agent Systems</a>. He frequently advises Government and international agencies on strategic research development; most recently he has been involved in the Office of Science and Technology's Foresight programs on Cognitive Systems and Cybertrust, and the IEE's Sector Panel on IT. He has published over <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/%7Enrj/pubs.html">300 articles</a> (with over <a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/indices/a-tree/j/Jennings:Nicholas_R=.html#coauthors">150</a> co-authors), graduated 20 PhD students, and holds 3 patents. He is in the top 100 most cited computer scientists (out of 790,000) according to the <a href="http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/allcitedn.html">CiteSeer </a>digital library, is in the top 150 most cited engineers according to the <a href="http://isi22.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=ESI&Func=Frame">ISI Web of Knowledge</a> and has an h-index of <a href="http://www.cs.ucla.edu/%7Epalsberg/h-number.html">55</a> in Google Scholar. He has received a number of awards for his research: the <a href="http://www.ijcai.org/awards/index.php">Computers and Thought Award </a>(the premier award for a young AI scientist) in 1999 (this is the only time in the Award's 35 year history that it has been given to someone based in Europe), an IEE Achievement Medal in 2000, and the <a href="http://sigart.acm.org/">ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award </a>in 2003. He is a Fellow of the <a href="http://www.raeng.org.uk/">Royal Academy of Engineering</a>, the <a href="http://www.bcs.org/">British Computer Society</a>, the <a href="http://www.iee.org/">Institution of Electrical Engineers</a>, the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (<a href="http://www.aisb.org.uk/">AISB</a>), and the European artificial intelligence association (<a href="http://www.eccai.org/fellows.shtml">ECCAI</a>) and a member of the UK Computing Research Committee (<a href="http://www.ukcrc.org.uk/">UKCRC</a>). http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nrj/

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1 Toru Ishida <a href="http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Eishida/">Toru Ishida</a> is a Professor of Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University. Until 1993, he was a research scientist of NTT Laboratories. He spent some time at Columbia University, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, University of Maryland, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Tsinghua University as a visiting scholar/professor. He has been working on autonomous agents and multiagent systems for twenty years. He proposed parallel rule firing, and extended it to distributed rule firing. Organizational self-design was introduced into distributed production systems for increasing adaptiveness. He also studies social informatics and running research projects related to community computing (or communityware), digital cities, and intercultural collaboration. He is a leader of the Language Grid project at NICT from 2006. His professional services include an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, an associate editor of Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, a co-editor in chief of Elsevier Journal on Web Semantics, a program co-chair of International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS'96), and a general co-chair of the first International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'02). He is a Fellow of IEEE and IPSJ. http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ishida/

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1 Pat Hayes <a href="http://www.ihmc.us/users/user.php?UserID=phayes">Pat Hayes</a> received a BA in mathematics from Cambridge University and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh. He has held academic positions in computer science at the University of Essex (England), in philosophy at the University of Illinois and as the Luce Professor of cognitive science at the University of Rochester. He has been a visiting scholar at Universite de Geneve and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Studies at Stanford, and has directed applied AI research at Xerox-PARC, SRI and Schlumberger, Inc.. At various times, Pat has been secretary of <a href="http://www.aisb.org.uk/">AISB</a>, chairman and trustee of <a href="http://ijcai.org/">IJCAI</a>, associate editor of <a href="http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/artint">Artificial Intelligence</a>, a governor of the <a href="http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/">Cognitive Science Society</a> and president of <a href="http://aaai.org/">AAAI</a>. Pat's current research interests include knowledge representation and automatic reasoning, especially the representation of space and time; the semantic web; ontology design; and the philosophical foundations of AI and computer science. He also restores antique mechanical clocks, remodels old houses, draws portraits and enjoys arguing with anyone about almost anything. Pat is a charter Fellow of AAAI and of the Cognitive Science Society, and has professional competence in domestic plumbing, carpentry and electrical work. http://www.ihmc.us/users/user.php?UserID=phayes

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1 Carole Goble <a href="http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Ecarole/">Carole Goble</a> is a Professor in the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester. She is co-leader of the Information Management Group. She has a leading role in the Semantic Web, e-Science and the Semantic Grid. She applies technical advances in knowledge technologies and workflow systems to solve information management problems for Life Scientists and other scientific disciplines. She was co-PC chair of WWW2006 and is an EIC of the Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics. She is the director of the large UK e-Science <a href="http://www.mygrid.org.uk/">myGrid/Taverna programme</a> of work for workflow based middleware for Life Scientists. myGrid uses semantic technologies for service and workflow discover and metadata management of workflow-based experiments. myGrid is now part of the <a href="http://www.omii.ac.uk/">Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK</a>; Carole is the chair of this Institute (of 40+ software developers) which has been funded to harden and support developments from the UK's e-Science programme. She is the co-chair of the Open Grid Forum Semantic Grid Research Group, and the Technical Director of the <a href="http://www.ontogrid.net/">EU Strep OntoGrid</a>, which has developed the Semantic-Open Grid Service Architecture (S-OGSA) framework for Semantic Grids. Until recently she was the Research Area manager for the EU NoE Knowledge Web, which coordinates Semantic Web research across Europe. The Information Management Group is renowned for its work on ontology languages, reasoning systems and their practical application to real problems. Her work on the application of ontologies to biology and bioinformatics has been especially influential. Carole has over 130 publications in Semantics and e-Science, and is a popular keynote speaker. She gave the opening keynote on the use of Semantic Web for Life Sciences at Intl Semantic Web Conference 2005 and given many keynotes on the Semantic Grid at major conferences including European Conf on AI 2004, the European Grid Conference 2005, the 1^st IEEE e-Science and Grid Computing Conference 2005, EGEE 2006 and Intl Joint Conf on AI 2007. She sits on 15 national and international oversight committees concerning e-Science, Bioinformatics, Semantic technologies and Grid Computing. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~carole/

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1 Dame Janet Finch <a href="http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lcs/membership/finch.htm">Professor Janet Finch</a> is Vice Chancellor of Keele University, a post which she has occupied since 1995. A Sociologist by background, Prof Finch was awarded a CBE in 1999 for services to Social Science. In the same year she was named as one of the Founder Academicians of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. As an academic her research expertise lies principally in studies of family relationships, especially relationships across generations. Prof Finch has had long and varied experience of contributing to research and scientific policy development. These include: <ul> <li>Economic and Social Research Council: member of Council and Chair of Research Grants Board (1993-97)</li> <li>Office for National Statistics: Non-Executive Director (1999- )</li> <li>National Centre for Social Research: Trustee (2002- )</li> <li>Higher Education Funding Council for England: Member of Strategic Advisory Committee for Research (2003- )</li> <li>Council for Science and Technology: Member (2004- )</li> </ul> She also has occupied senior leadership positions within the University sector more generally. Currently she chairs the Health Strategy Group of Universities UK, and also the Board of the Equality Challenge Unit for Higher Education. http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lcs/membership/finch.htm

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1 Joan Feigenbaum <a href="http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/jf/">Joan Feigenbaum</a> is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of <a href="http://www.cs.yale.edu/">Computer Science</a> at <a href="http://www.yale.edu/">Yale University</a>. She received a BA in Mathematics from <a href="http://www.harvard.edu/">Harvard</a> and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/">Stanford</a>. Between finishing her Ph.D. in 1986 and starting at Yale in 2000, she was with AT&T, where she participated very broadly in the company's Information-Sciences research agenda, e.g., by creating a research group in Algorithms and Distributed Data, of which she was the manager in 1998-99. Professor Feigenbaum's research interests include Internet algorithms, computational complexity, security and privacy, and digital copyright. While at Yale, she has been a principal in several high-profile activities, including the NSF-funded <a href="http://crypto.stanford.edu/portia">PORTIA Project</a> and the ONR-funded <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Espyce">SPYCE Project</a>. She currently serves on the Scientific Council of the <a href="http://www.webscience.org/">Web Sciences Research Institute</a>, as an Executive-Committee Member-at-Large of the <a href="http://sigact.acm.org/">ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computational Theory (Sigact)</a>, as Vice Chair of the <a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigecom/">ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (Sigecom)</a>, and as a Program-Committee Member of the <a href="http://www.podc.org/podc2009/">2009 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC'09)</a> and the Internet Monetization Track of the <a href="http://www2009.org/">2009 World Wide Web conference (WWW'09)</a>. Professor Feigenbaum is a <a href="http://fellows.acm.org/homepage.cfm?alpha=F&srt=alpha">Fellow of the ACM</a>. http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/jf/

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0 David De Roure Dave De Roure is a Professor of e-Research in the Oxford e-Research Centre and National Strategic Director for e-Social Science. Closely involved in the UK e-Science programme, his projects draw on Web 2.0, Semantic Web and workflow technologies and he focuses on creating new research methods in and between multiple disciplines including chemistry, bioinformatics, environmental science, social statistics and computational musicology. He has a long background in Web and Linked Data and is a  Web Science champion for the Web Science Trust. David was a founding member of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at University of Southampton before joining Oxford in 2010. His past papers can be found <a class="external-link" href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/dder/publications">here</a>. http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dder/

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0 Stefan Decker <a href="http://www.stefandecker.org/">Dr. Stefan Decker</a> is a Professor at the National University of Ireland and director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway. He earned his PhD at the University of Karlsruhe. Since then his main interest is the Semantic Web, and the application of the Semantic Web to make it simpler for people, organisations and systems to collaborate and interoperate on a global scale, with special focus on how to transfer results into practice and how to get people to use technology. He is one of the people behind a large European Semantic Desktop project and PI on several projects within the Digital Enterprise Research Institute aiming at practical usable Semantic Web technology. Previous work places include Stanford University and the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. http://www.stefandecker.org/

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1 Dave Cliff Dave Cliff is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. He has a BSc in Computer Science and an MA and PhD in Cognitive Science. He previously served in academic faculty jobs at the University of Sussex (UK), at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab (USA), and at the University of Southampton (UK). From 1998-2005 Cliff worked as an industrial research scientist: formerly as a Department Scientist at the Hewlett-Packard Labs European Research Centre in Bristol, where he founded and led HP's Complex Adaptive Systems research group; and latterly as a Director in Deutsche Bank's Foreign Exchange (FX) Complex Risk Group, on Deutsche's City of London FX trading floor. In October 2005, Cliff was appointed Director of the UK national research and training initiative in the science and engineering of Large-Scale Complex IT Systems (LSCITS). The <a href="http://www.lscits.org/">LSCITS Initiative</a> commenced formally in October 2007, is funded by almost £10m of UK public funds, and will involve more than 250 person-years of research effort over its first phase. Cliff is author or co-author on over 70 academic publications, inventor or co-inventor on 15 patents; and he has undertaken advisory and consultancy work for a number of major companies and for the UK Government. He's given well over 100 invited keynote lectures and seminars; and he and his work have frequently been featured both in the press and on TV and radio.

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1 David Clark David Clark is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he has worked since receiving his Ph.D. there in 1973. Since the mid 70s, Dr. Clark has been leading the development of the Internet; from 1981-1989 he acted as Chief Protocol Architect in this development, and chaired the Internet Activities Board. More recent activities include extensions to the Internet to support real-time traffic, pricing and related economic issues, and policy issues surrounding the Internet, such as broadband local loop deployment. His current research looks at re-definition of the architectural underpinnings of the Internet, and the relation of technology and architecture to economic, societal and policy considerations. Dr. Clark is past chairman of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies, and has contributed to a number of studies on the societal and policy impact of computer communications. He is co-director of the MIT Communications Futures Program, a project for industry collaboration and coordination along the communications value chain.

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0 Manuel Castells Current position: Research Professor of Information Society at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and of Planning, University of California, Berkeley Manuel Castells is as well the holder of the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and the Marvin and Joanne Grossman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at the Massachussets Institute of Technology. Prior to his appointment to Berkeley in 1979, he was professor of sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes es Sciences Sociales in Paris, and professor of sociology at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He is a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economic Sciences. He has received honorary doctorates from 14 universities.He has published 23 books and over 100 academic articles, including the trilogy "The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture" (Blackwell, 1996-2003) translated in 21 languages. His research focuses on the social and economic dimensions of information and communication technologies. He has also worked on urban and regional development, and on the relationship between globalization and cultural identity.

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1 Albert-László Barabási <a href="http://www.nd.edu/%7Ealb/">Albert-László Barabási</a> is a Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University, where he directs the <a href="http://www.nd.edu/%7Enetworks/">Center for Complex Network Research</a>. He is also a member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, the technology hospital of Harvard Medical School. A Hungarian born native of Transylvania, as an undergraduate student he worked as a scientific correspondent for the largest Hungarian general audience weekly in Bucharest. He received his Masters in Theoretical Physics at the Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary and was awarded a Ph.D. three years later at Boston University. After a year at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, he joined Notre Dame as an Assistant Professor, to be promoted Professor and Endowed Chair at the unprecedented age of 33. Currently he is one of the most cited scientists. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award and the Office of Naval Research's Young Investigator Award, the von Neumann Award for Computer Science and the FEBS Anniversary Prize for Systems Biology. He was elected member of the Hungarian National Academy and Academia Europeae. Barabási is the author of Linked: The New Science of Networks, currently available in eleven languages. He is the co-author of Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth (Cambridge, 1995), which is by far the most cited text in this area, and the co-editor (with M. Newman and D. Watts) of The Structure and Dynamics of Networks (Princeton, 2005). His seminal work on complex networks leading to the discovery of scale-free networks, 19 degrees of separation, the Internet's Achilles Heel, and his work on cellular networks have been widely featured in the media, including the cover of Nature, Science News and many other journals, and written about in Science, Science News, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, American Scientist, Discover, Business Week, Die Zeit, El Pais, Le Monde, London's Daily Telegraph, National Geographic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, New Scientist, and La Republica, among others. He has been interviewed by BBC Radio, National Public Radio, CBS and ABC News, CNN, NBC, and many other media outlets. http://www.nd.edu/~alb/

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0 James Hendler Professor James Hendler James Hendler is the Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, and the Assistant Dean for Information Technology and Web Science, at Rensselaer. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Experimental Multimedia Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), serves as a Director of the UK's charitable Web Science Trust and is a visiting Professor at the Institute of Creative Technology at DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK. Hendler has authored about 200 technical papers in the areas of Semantic Web, artificial intelligence, agent-based computing and high performance processing. One of the inventors of the Semantic Web, Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, is a member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board, and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the British Computer Society and the IEEE. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and was awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002. He is the Editor-in-Chief emeritus of IEEE Intelligent Systems and is the first computer scientist to serve on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science. In 2010, Hendler was named to the <a href="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler/PlayboyHonorRollRelease.htm">"honor roll"</a> of the 20 most innovative professors in America by Playboy magazine. Hendler also serves as an "Internet Web Expert" for the US government, providing guidance to the <a href="http://data.gov/">Data.gov</a> project. http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler/

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0 Daniel Weitzner <a href="http://people.w3.org/%7Edjweitzner/blog/">Daniel Weitzner</a> is Director of the World Wide Web Consortium's Technology and Society activities and Co-Director at the MIT CSAIL Decentralized Information Group. He is responsible for development of technology that enables the Web to address legal and public policy requirements. Weitzner holds an appointment as Principal Research Scientist at MIT's <a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/">Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</a>, co-directs MIT's <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/">Decentralized Information Group</a> with Tim Berners-Lee, and <a href="http://web.mit.edu/%7E6.805">teaches</a> Internet public policy at MIT. As a leading figure in the Internet policy community, he was the first to advocate user control technologies such as content filtering to protect children and avoid government censorship. These arguments played a critical role in the landmark Internet freedom of expression case in the United States Supreme Court, Reno v. ACLU (1997). In 1994, he won legal protections for email and web logs in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Weitzner holds an appointment as Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, co-directs MIT's Decentralized Information Group with Tim Berners-Lee, is a founding member of MIT's Center for Information Security and Privacy, and teaches Internet public policy at MIT. Weitzner was co-founder and Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the <a href="http://www.cdt.org/">Center for Democracy and Technology</a>, the <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Law Center</a>, and the <a href="http://www.neted.org/">Internet Education Foundation.</a> Weitzner has a law degree from Buffalo Law School, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Swarthmore College. His writings have appeared in Science magazine, the Yale Law Review, Communications of the ACM, Computerworld, Wired Magazine, Social Research, Electronic Networking: Research, Applications & Policy, and The Whole Earth Review. http://people.w3.org/~djweitzner/blog/

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0 Nigel Shadbolt Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deputy Head (Research) of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. He was a Founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative, a joint endeavour between the University of Southampton and MIT, and is a Director and Trustee of the Web Science Trust.  He is also a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation. He has recently been given a special role by the Prime Minister to help transform public access to Government information.  He will be working closely with Sir Tim Berners-Lee to open up public access to non-personal public data, including overseeing the creation of a single online point of access for public UK datasets. In its 50th Anniversary year 2006-07, Nigel was President of the British Computer Society.  He is a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society. Between 2000-07, he was the Director of the £7.5m EPSRC Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT).   AKT was particularly influential in establishing the viability and value of web-based semantic technologies.  In 2009 he was awarded a further £2m by the EPSRC to build on this work. He has been involved in a wide range of entrepreneurial activities. In 2006 he was one of three founding Directors of Garlik Ltd, a company specialising in consumer products and services to put people and their families in control of their own digital information.   He is currently Garlik’s Chief Scientific Officer. In 2008 Garlik was awarded Technology Pioneer status by the Davos World Economic Forum and won the prestigious UK national BT Flagship IT Award.  He is the co-author of “The Spy in the Coffee Machine” and has an interest in issues to do with privacy and trust in the Digital age.  He is a series consultant to the BBC’s landmark documentary series The Digital Revolution. http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/nrs/

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1 Rosemary Leith Rosemary Leith is a Director of Hilvern Management Limited a private investment company with investments in the UK, Europe and the USA. Prior to this she was CoFounder and Director of Flametree Life Solutions a strategic consulting firm that advised FTSE 100 clients on how to implement flexible work strategies. Flametree was founded in 1999 and in 2002 she sold the business to PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Rosemary is also a director of Oxigen a UK web based media company. For fifteen years prior to this Rosemary worked in the investment business, eight years as a Principal at Talisman Management Limited, a principal investment and management company focusing new and traditional media companies. Based in London for the last 20 years, Rosemary has a background in investment, financial analysis and accounting in the UK, USA, France, Switzerland and Canada, where she began her career at Coopers and Lybrand. Rosemary holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (with Honors) from Queens University in Canada. Rosemary's Non profit board memberships include: Founding Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, Chair of the Governance Committee. Trustee of the Almeida Theatre, Vice Chair of Almeida's Development Board  and member of the Strategy Committee.  Member of the Tate Foundation Advisory Board, Member of the Queen's University School of Business Global Advisory Council.   Rosemary advises a number of non profit organisations in fund raising and strategy. <span style="font-family: &amp;amp; color: black; font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">

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0 Noshir Contractor Professor Contractor is Director of the <a href="http://sonic.northwestern.edu/">Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC)</a> Research Group at Northwestern University. He is investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in a wide variety of contexts, including communities of practice in business, science, and engineering, public health networks, and virtual worlds. http://nosh.northwestern.edu/

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0 Bebo White Prof. Bebo White is a Departmental Associate (emeritus) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the national basic energy science laboratory at Stanford University. In addition, he holds faculty appointments at the University of Hong Kong and the University of San Francisco. He was a member of the team that established at SLAC the first Web site in the United States and the fifth in the world. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and academic institutions, and for commercial organizations around the world. Professor White is a member of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) and the Executive Committee of ACM SIGWEB, and holds advisory positions with numerous technical organizations. He is the author of nine books, has written over 100 journal articles on topics ranging from high-energy physics to Internet and Web technology, and is a managing editor of the Journal of Web Engineering.    Related Links: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.rose-hulman.edu/thorn/45/2/web-legend-comes-rose/">Web legend comes to Rose</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.iter.org/newsline/Pages/102/1398.aspx">The World Wide Web as a Science</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cs.usfca.edu/sls-cs-fall-2009.html">Special Lecture Series in Computer Science</a></li> </ul> http://www.bebowhite.com

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0 Michael L. Brodie Dr. Michael L. Brodie is Chief Scientist of Verizon Services Operations in Verizon Communications, one of the world's leading providers of communications services. Dr. Brodie works on large-scale strategic Information Technology opportunities and challenges to deliver business value from advanced and emerging technologies and practices. He is concerned with the Big Picture, core technologies, and integration within a large scale, operational telecommunications environment. Dr. Brodie holds a PhD in Databases from the University of Toronto and has active interests in the Semantic Technologies, Next Generation Web, SOA, and other advanced technologies to address secure, interoperable web-scale information systems, databases, infrastructure and application architectures. Dr. Brodie has authored over 150 books, chapters, and articles and has presented over 150 keynotes or invited lectures in over 30 countries. Dr. Brodie is an Adjunct Professor, <a href="http://www.nuigalway.ie/">National University of Ireland, Galway</a> (2006-present and an Adjunct Research Fellow, Digital Ecosystems Business Intelligence (DEBII) Institute, <a href="http://www.curtin.edu.au/">Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia</a> (January 2009-present). He chairs three Advisory Boards – <a href="http://www.sti2.org/">Semantic Technology Institutes International</a>, Vienna, Austria (January 2007 – present); <a href="http://www.deri.ie/">Digital Enterprise Research Institute</a>, National University of Ireland (2003-present); <a href="http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/">Semantic Technology Institute, Innsbrück, Austria</a> (2003-present); and is a member of several advisory boards - <a href="http://www.ercim.org/">The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics</a> (2007 – present); <a href="http://ic.epfl.ch/page4566-en.html">School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland</a> (2001 – present); <a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/ist">European Union’s Information Society Technologies 5th, 6th, and 7th Framework Programmes</a> (2003-present); several European and Asian research projects; editorial board of several research journals; past Board member of research foundations including the <a href="http://www.vldb.org/">VLDB (Very Large Databases) Endowment</a> (1992 - 2004) and The Board of Clients, <a href="http://www.forrester.com/">Forrester Research, Inc</a>.(2006-2008) and was a member of the United States of America <a href="http://terrorismandprivacy.org/">National Academies Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and other National Goals</a>, co-chaired by Dr. Charles Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering and Dr. William Perry, former Secretary of Defense, and commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation. http://michaelbrodie.com/

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0 Harith Alani My research interests include: social semantic web, ontology-based network analysis, communities of practice, semantic knowledge integration, web science, ontology-based knowledge extraction, semantic similarity measures, ontology searching and ranking, semantic web applications, and cross-folksonomy integration and analysis.   http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ha/

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0 Dr Leslie Carr I'm a researcher in the <a href="http://www.iam.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia</a> at the University of Southampton. Since the 1980's I have experimented with multimedia information systems, novel ways of constructing hypertexts, digital libraries and knowledge management systems. As a practical application of the above ideas (time to change the world instead of just thinking deep thoughts), I am working with Open Access and Institutional Repositories. My goal is to encourage researchers and scientists to become responsible curators of their own intellectual assets, and to build the information environments that enable that goal and also that take advantage of it (repositories, literature analysis services, community maps, new idea trackers). I'm fascinated by the way that humans can take advantage of new information sources (like Google or the Semantic Web) and whether these things can help to make us genuinely smarter. Can Google make someone behave like an expert? And if so, can we change the way that we teach children or undergraduates ? http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lac/

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0 Richard Cyganiak Semantic Web evangelist. Researcher and engineer at <a rel="foaf:workplaceHomepage" href="http://www.deri.ie/">DERI Galway</a>, Ireland. Berlin native. http://richard.cyganiak.de/

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0 Jennifer Golbeck http://www.cs.umd.edu/~golbeck/

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0 Lalana Kagal Lalana is a Research Scientist at <a href="http://mit.edu/">MIT</a> <a href="http://csail.mit.edu/">CSAIL</a>, where she works with the <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/">Decentralized Information Group (DIG)</a> group. Her current research focus is on policy-based frameworks and protocols for security and privacy on the Web and on improving transparency and accountability of knowledge inference across heterogeneous information systems. She is a former postdoctoral associate at MIT and was supervised by <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/">Tim Berners-Lee</a>. She received PhD (advisor <a href="http://cs.umbc.edu/%7Efinin">Tim Finin</a>) and M.S. degrees from the <a href="http://umbc.edu/">University of Maryland, Baltimore County</a> where she worked with the <a href="http://research.ebiquity.org/">Ebiquity</a> group on various aspects of trust, security, and general policy management in dynamic distributed environments including the Semantic Web, multi-agent systems, and pervasive computing systems. Her thesis involved developing <a href="http://rei.umbc.edu/">Rei</a>, a policy language for distributed system management, which is expressed in RDF/XML and is a rule extension of OWL. http://people.csail.mit.edu/lkagal/

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0 Deborah L. McGuinness Dr. Deborah McGuinness is the acting director and senior research scientist at the Knowledge Systems, (<a href="http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/">KSL</a>) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford University. She is a leading expert in knowledge representation and reasoning languages and systems and has worked in ontology creation and evolution environments for over 20 years.  Most recently, Deborah is best known for her leadership role in semantic web research, and for her work on explanation, trust, and applications of semantic web technology, particularly for scientific applications. Deborah is co-editor of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/">Ontology Web Language</a> which has emerged from <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/">web ontology working group</a> of the World Wide Web (W3C) <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/">semantic web activity</a> and has now achieved W3C Recommendation status. She helped start the web ontology working group out of work as a co-author of the <a href="http://www.daml.org/">DARPA Agent Markup Language program</a>'s <a href="http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ieee-daml01-abstract.html">DAML</a> language. She helped form the <a href="http://www.daml.org/committee/">Joint EU/US Agent Markup Language Committee</a> which evolved the DAML language into the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/daml+oil-reference">DAML+OIL</a> description logic-based ontology language. She is a co-author of one of the more widely used long-lived description logic systems <a href="http://www.bell-labs.com/project/classic/">(CLASSIC) </a>from Bell Laboratories. Her work on languages (including <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/">OWL</a>, <a href="http://www-db.research.bell-labs.com/user/pfps/daml/daml+oil-reference.html">DAML+OIL</a>, <a href="http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/">OIL</a>, CLASSIC, etc.) is aimed at providing languages that enable the next generation of web applications moving from a web aimed at human consumption to the semantic web aimed at machine consumption in support of intelligent assistants and web agents. Deborah is a leader in ontology-based tools and applications. She is a co-author and technical leader of the Stanford KSL <a href="http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/software/chimaera">ontology evolution environment</a>. She also consulted to help VerticalNet design and build its <a href="http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontologyBuilderVerticalNet-abstract.html">Ontobuilder/Ontoserver</a> ontology evolution environment. She also provided technical leadership for the Stanford project to help Cisco systems form its ontology evolution plan for its meta data formation work. Deborah's main research thrusts are in languages, tools, and environments for the semantic web. Deborah leads the Stanford  <a href="http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/software/iw/">Inference Web</a> (IW) effort. IW provides a framework for increasing trust in answers from heterogeneous systems by explaining how the answers were derived and what they depended on. Inference Web supports this goal by providing infrastructure and an implemented web-based environment for storing, exchanging, combining, annotating, comparing, search for, validating, and rendering proofs and proof fragments provided by reasoners and query answering systems. Inference web is being used as an infrastructure for explanations in a number of DARPA, DTO, and NSF projects and in a few demonstration systems including  the <a href="http://iw.stanford.edu/documents/McGuinnessSNRCFeb172005-SDS-InferenceWeb.ppt">Explainable Semantic Discovery Service</a> and the <a href="http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/webont/wineAgent/">KSL wine agent</a>. Deborah led the wine agent project as an early semantic web services demonstration system that integrates explanation (via Inference web), semantic web languages (via DAML+OIL and OWL), semantic web query languages (via OWL-QL), and web services (via OWL-S). http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/

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0 Kieron O'Hara Kieron O'Hara is a senior research fellow in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, and a research fellow of the Web Science Research Initiative, currently on the LiveMemories project. He is the author of nine books, including: 'Plato and the Internet' (2002); 'Trust: From Socrates to Spin' (2004); 'inequality.com: Power, Poverty and the Digital Divide' (2006, with David Stevens); and 'The Spy in the Coffee Machine: The End of Privacy As We Know It' (2008, with Nigel Shadbolt), as well as 'A Framework for Web Science' (2006, with Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, James A. Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel J. Weitzner), for the journal 'Foundations and Trends in Web Science'. He has also written extensively on British politics and political theory, and is a research fellow for the Centre for Policy Studies. He writes frequently for popular journals and newspapers, has appeared several times on radio and television, and regularly blogs for the British Computer Society and the Centre for Policy Studies. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/kmo

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0 mc schraefel dr mc schraefel (lower case deliberate, and if we're on a first name basis, "mc" is truly preferred as the appellation). I'm a Reader in the Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group (IAM), part of Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton. My main area is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_interaction" target="new">Human Computer Interaction</a> (HCI) / <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_factors" target="new">Human Factors</a>. My main area of research is interaction and information systems design to support knowledge building in desktop, mobile and increasingly pervasive environments. In other words, i'm interested in looking at how we can design tools to help connect information on massive information repositories like the Web so that we can make better use of the information that's out there. That is, design ways of accessing, representing and manipulating this info to find out what we want to know, learn what we want to learn, more effectively so as to increase knowledge, delight, discovery, quality of life Right now, the most powerful tool we have to explore the mass of data on the web is a single box: the keyword search box of the search engine. Awesomely elegant and powerful. If what you want to do is find one thing: what is this business's phone number; what is cholesterol; when did napolean get sent to that Island and what was it called? Questions like what are the trends in breast cancer research and how do they compare with trends in other research areas - not so much. Unless there's been a report done on that topic, we would have to coble together lots of data from many sources across many (tedious) searches to put this picture together. Can't we do better than that? enable someone to ask this question and explore not only those trends, but look at what a particular area means or where criticisms or support of a new treatment emerging from this work is starting, and by the way who locally performs a sentinel node biopsy? The area of designing, delivering and evaluating (do they work?) tools to support these more-than/other-than keyword search queries is increasingly being called Exploratory Search (where a few of us <a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1121949.1121978&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&idx=J79&part=magazine&WantType=Magazines&title=Communications%20of%20the%20ACM&CFID=80041447&CFTOKEN=90537183">co-edited</a> a Communications of the ACM <a href="http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1121949&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&type=issue&idx=J79&part=magazine&WantType=Magazines&title=Communications%20of%20the%20ACM&CFID=80041447&CFTOKEN=90537183">special issue on the topic</a>. Great piece there by <a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1121949.1121979&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&idx=J79&part=magazine&WantType=Magazines&title=Communications%20of%20the%20ACM&CFID=80041447&CFTOKEN=90537183">Gary Marchionininini</a>) or Information Seeking Strategies (Ryen White and Gary lead a recent NSF workshop on this topic. There's a reference to one of the grand challenges on my <a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mc/?page=research#momx">research page</a>).   http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mc/

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0 Amy van der Hiel Amy van der Hiel is the assistant to Tim Berners-Lee, a primary meeting planner and part of the administrative team at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT. Before joining the W3C, Amy was the Assistant to the Director and Curatorial Associate at the Bakalar and Huntington Galleries at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. She has her Bachelors degree in Art History from Bard College, NY and her Masters degree in Art Education from Mansfield University, PA.

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0 Mark Weal Mark Weal is a member of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group and Learning Societies Lab, founder member of the Pervasive Systems Centre. His current research interests include the application of Semantic Web technologies to pervasive systems. Mark has worked for a number of years in the area of information systems, from hypermedia systems for eLearning through to information infrastructures for multi-user pervasive experiences as exemplified by his work on the Equator IRC. Mark's work has been extensively cross disciplinary, engaging with teachers, archivists and nursing practitioners amongst others. http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mjw/

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1 Pamela Mason Pamela obtained her PhD in chemistry from the University of Nottingham in 2006 and, following a post-doctoral position at the University of Manchester, has since been a portfolio manager at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), in the ICT and Digital Economy programmes. She has been seconded to the Web Science Trust from the EPSRC as Operations Manager for the Trust.

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0 Nichola Need Clerical Assistant within the Web Science Trust.

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0 Hugh Glaser Hugh Glaser is a consultant on Linked Data. He has a background of more than 30 years research in distributed systems and programming languages, most recently as a Reader in the School of Electronics & Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. He is responsible for the <a href="http://rkbexplorer.com/">http://rkbexplorer.com/</a> and <a href="http://sameas.org/">http://sameas.org/</a> services.

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0 Samantha Collins Clerical Assistant within the Web Science Trust

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0 Joyce Lewis As Marketing and Communications Manager of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton I have responsibility for all corporate marketing communications, internal and external communications, public relations and media liaison. Working in one of the world's leading computer science research centres provides many opportunities for innovative use of the Web, and I was delighted that we were the first UK academic institution to launch its own video podcasting news service in March 2006. Our <a style="color: #000000;" href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/podcasts">video podcasts</a> are a regular feature of our communications programme and, along with our <a style="color: #000000;" href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/admissions/ug/blogs/index.php">student blogs,</a> allow visitors to our site to gain a really useful insight into the life of the School and its associated research centres. My roles in ECS encompass all academic and research activities taking place in the School and I have been providing communications and marketing for Web Science since 2006.   http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/jkl2

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0 Sudarshan Murthy     Dr. Sudarshan Murthy is the Director of <a href="http://www.elseinstitute.org/">The Else Institute</a>, a non-profit institute to foster, conduct, and apply scientific research and research education. Prior to joining The Else Institute, Dr. Murthy was the Director of Applied Research at Wipro Technologies. Before that, he founded and operated a software-engineering business in Portland, Oregon, and prior to that, architected software for international trade finance.     Dr. Murthy has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in data management at the Oregon Health & Science University; and software engineering at the Oregon Institute of Technology.    Dr. Murthy has a PhD from the Portland State University and a Masters from the Oregon Graduate Institute. His current research interests include database systems, programming languages, software engineering, web science, and service science.

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0 Dr Craig Gallen Craig Gallen's role at the University of Southampton is as Operations Manager for the <a href="http://webscience.org/">Web Science Trust</a> where he is seeking to develop collaboration between the affiliated research labs and industry groups. Craig has spent over 20 years in the telecommunications industry in a variety of positions concerned with the management of large scale telecommunications networks. His activities have included working as a senior product manager for 3G Network Management systems at Nortel Networks and prototyping a digital TV management system for Arqiva. Craig Gallen originally graduated from the University of Ulster. He holds both an Engineering Doctorate and an MBA from the University of Southampton and an Msc in Telecommunications from the University of Essex. Craig's doctoral research at the University of Southampton looked at the role which open source collaboration could play in the development of integrated operational support systems for the telecommunications industry. Building on his research, Craig is presently the co-lead of the Shared Interface Infrastructure Team for the <a href="http://www.tmforum.org/BestPracticesStandards/IntegrationFramework/4866/Home.html">TM Forum Integration Framework</a> in the <a href="http://www.tmforum.org/">TM Forum</a> which is developing open source tooling for model driven development of management interface standards. (This work is viewable at the <a href="http://www.tmforum.org/BestPracticesStandards/IntegrationFramework/4866/Home.html">TM Forum Integration Framework</a> in the <a href="http://openoss.sourceforge.net/">OpenOSS project</a> on sourceforge). Craig is also a committer to the open source network management project, <a href="http://www.opennms.org/">OpenNMS</a> for which he is a ‘project evangelist’ in the UK.

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