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Brave Conversations Workshop Sunday 30 June 2019 ACM Web Science Conference, Boston, USA Almost a decade ago a small group of people from industry and government, organised a series of conferences in Canberra which sought to bring various communities together to talk about the emerging issues related to humans and technologies (see metalounge). At the same time a group of […]
Deadline: 30 April 2019 ****************************************************************** The Steering Committee of ACM WebSci is seeking statements of interest from organizations or consortia interested in hosting the 12th or 13th ACM Web Science Conferences (WebSci 2020 and WebSci 2021). The conference series usually moves between the continents. We will accept bids from all locations, but for the 2020 […]
The Steering Committee of the WSTNet Web Science Summer School (WWSSS) invites interested parties from commercial, academic or public domain to submit bids to host WWSSS in 2021. The call consists of two stages: first an expression of interest and second a full proposal. Stage 1: Expression of interest (due Jun 15th) Parties interested in […]
The Steering Committee of the WSTNet Web Science Summer School (WWSSS) invites interested parties from commercial, academic or public domain to submit bids to host WWSSS in 2020. The call consists of two stages: first an expression of interest and second a full proposal. Stage 1: Expression of interest (due May 30) Parties interested in […]
WST CEO Prof. Dame Wendy Hall was interviewed at POLITICO Artificial Intelligence: Innovation and Governance Summit 2019. Below is a link to a video of the interview Dame Wendy Interview
Today, 30 years on from my original proposal for an information management system, half the world is online. It’s a moment to celebrate how far we’ve come, but also an opportunity to reflect on how far we have yet to go. The web has become a public square, a library, a doctor’s office, a shop, […]
Starting 30 years ago this week, the World Wide Web has grown from a single node (on an exotic NeXt server) to truly capture its bold title. Click here to see Tim’s vague-but-exciting proposal. We wish Tim and all his colleagues who worked on the early WWW project a very happy anniversary. Here are a […]
A new book “The Theory and Practice of Social Machines” has been published by Springer. This is an exciting new output from the SOCIAM project in which the University of Southampton was a partner, together with the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Executive Director of the Web Science Trust and Executive […]
Web Sci Summer school 2019 will be hosted in the UK by the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton with other UK venues to be announced. Speakers and programme to follow. SAVE THE DATE 9th-13th September (* Date Corrected *)