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The University of Southampton celebrated 10 years of Web Science at a vibrant event at the Royal Society in London yesterday to officially launch the new Web Science Institute (WSI) which brings together the activities of the Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), the Southampton/Fraunhofer joint venture (SoFWired), co-operations with other Web Science research […]
WEB SCIENCE AND THE MIND JULY 7 – 18 2014 Universite du Québec à Montreal Montreal, Canada Registration: http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/page/inscription.php?lang_id=2 Cognitive Science and Web Science have been converging in the study of cognition: (i) distributed within the brain (ii) distributed between multiple minds (iii) distributed between minds and media The four themes of the Summer Institute are: (1) Homologies and […]
Inspired by the pioneering work of the World Wide Web Foundation and the global ‘Web We Want’ campaign, Southbank Centre announces a major festival spanning Sep 2014 – May 2015 that looks at the extraordinary impact the web has had on individuals, governments and societies at large. The ‘Web We Want’ festival is dedicated to […]
After a successful 25th birthday celebration – including a birthday cake – here are a selection of photos from Seoul. Flickr photos
By Sally Mouakkad, Science and Innovation Officer, British Consulate-General Los Angeles Last month marked the 25th anniversary of the ‘World Wide Web.’ In countries like the UK and the US where access to the Internet is relatively easy and affordable, the Web has become so integrated and entwined with our daily lives that now it feels impossible to […]
A new Web Science Institute (WSI) combining the resources of the university of Southampton Web Science doctoral training centre, the SoFWired collaboration with the Frauenhofer Institute and the Web Science Trust (WST). The Web is the largest information system ever constructed and a social and technical phenomenon that has transformed the world and continues to […]
April 5 -6 2014, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA The Build Peace Conference brings together practitioners, activists and technologists from around the world to share experience and ideas on using technology for peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Technology is altering how we engage with the world, offering new avenues for social change. Over the course of […]
We’d like to wish the Web a happy 25th Birthday and thank Sir Tim for his efforts in proposing something famously dubbed “vague but exciting” by his boss … http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html and a more up to date view from http://www.webat25.org/
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new WST website – we have tried to take account of improvement suggestions from our users and to streamline the discovery and display of data. We’d also like to thank all those who made time to review the beta site and provide feedback.