Prof. James Hendler awarded the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize Professor James Hendler has been awarded the prestigious 2025 AAAI Feigenbaum Award for his groundbreaking contributions to knowledge representation, planning, and the Semantic Web. The award was presented to Professor Hendler during a ceremony at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25) in Philadelphia, PA. Prof. Hendler is […]
In this interview we sit down with Prof. George Metakides, one of our esteemed WST trustees, to talk about democracy in the digital space and why you should be concerned. Ian: George, thanks very much for taking the time to chat with me today. George: Always pleased to take the opportunity to talk about Web […]
In conversation this time is well-known finance and digital economy expert, Jennifer Zhu Scott. Jen recently joined the WST Board of Trustees and we are delighted to welcome her. Ian Brown sat down to find out a little more about Jennifer’s (Jen’s) path to Web Science and why she thinks we’ve invented a whole new […]
What do you get when you mix Philosophy, Applied Psychology, AI, Political activism and Unix programming with the Web? In conversation this time is well-known BBC journalist, author and technology pundit Bill Thompson, who is surely an obvious candidate for the titles of both renaissance man and Web Scientist – he recently joined the board […]
Beginning this summer, you might need to upload a selfie and a photo ID to a private company, ID.me, if you want to file your taxes online.Oscar Wong/Moment via Getty Images James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is planning to require citizens to create accounts with a private facial recognition company […]
Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering, the Northwestern School of Communication, and the Kellogg School of Management, and director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group. He is a foremost researcher of network science, computational social science, and web science, specifically examining […]
WST Trustee and Web Science researcher Prof Noshir Contractor has been elected as next president of the prestigious ICA ( International Communications Association) Click here to see the details of the election. About Noshir Noshir S. Contractor is a Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the School of Engineering, School […]
In a special edition podcast from the BBC’s Digital Planet, four key speakers from the 12th ACM Web Science Conference spoke with programme presenter Gareth Mitchell about Web Science and why it matters. Featuring Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Vint Cerf, Carly Kind and JP Rangaswami, with expert commentary from Bill Thompson, the show highlights the […]