How do we model the transient or ephemeral Web? Billions of Web pages are dynamically generated; they exist for the period of a particular query or transaction. How do we model this graph beneath the graph that is the Web? How are Bayesian or other uncertainty representations best used within the Web? What is the […]
With the emergence of the so-called Linked Data Web or Semantic Web a key emerging challenge as we move from a Web of documents to a Web of linked data at a more fine-grained level is how we are to browse, explore and query such a Web at scale. Collective Intelligence is the surprising result […]
MedEX 2011 Workshop The Second International Workshop on Web Science and Information Exchange in the Medical Web (MedEX 2011) October 28, Glasgow, UK, co-located with the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2011 Visit MedEX 2011 Workshop The amount of Social Media Data dealing with medical and health issues increased significantly in the last […]
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 […]
On July 6-13, the second Web Science Doctoral Summer School was held in Galway, Ireland, drawing over 50 attendees from across Europe, as well as from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the USA. Hosted by the National University of Ireland’s Digital Enterprise Research Institute, the summer school included lectures and tutorials from a number of eminent […]
The DIGITAL ENLIGHTENMENT FORUM aims to shed light on rapid technological changes and their perceived impact on society and its governance. The FORUM will stimulate debate and in doing so will take reference from the Enlightenment period, as well as from transformations and evolutions that have taken place since. It will view digital technologies and […]
Mark Bernstein, of Eastgate software and the powerful and intriguing Tinderbox program, was a guest-blogger here earlier this year. Last week, at the Web Science ’11conference in Koblenz, Germany, he made a presentation about the way the modern Web of internet-based knowledge could still fail. Read full article here
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. As with the first two conferences, held in Athens and Raleigh, NC, there were great papers, posters and discussions. And again as before, Twitter and social networks were important resources of data and sources […]
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. The conference was opened by Professor Steffen Staab, Conference General Chair, Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Founder-Director of the 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. An audience drawn largely from the technology sector heard Sir Tim outline his hopes for the Web’s future, […]