Many thanks to everyone one who joined us in London for such a special event. Please enjoy a recording of the event below.
WebSci’24 keynote talks have been kindly released for public catch-up viewing by the ACM. Please note this is a playlist of several talks.
Part of the 50th Anniversary of the Internet festivities here are links to the three celebration videos covering The Office of the Future A virtual Celebration of 50 years of the Internet Celebrating TCP, 802 Standards and Google Alternatively these can be reached from the IEEE page below. 50th Anniversary of the Internet
In the second episode of the NISTH ThinkOut Podcast series, our host, Assoc Prof Sulfikar Amir, Director, NISTH speaks with Dame Wendy Hall, the UK’s first AI Skills Champion and Regius Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. From the discovery of the world wide web to the onset of AI, they discuss the […]
WST CEO Professor Dame Wendy Hall was interviewed along with Professor Nick Bostrum on BBC’s Newsnight to discuss growing concerns around the use of AI, the need for regulation and the credibility behind claims of impending AI disaster. The Video is a two-part piece with the Newsnight team discussing the background/context to the issue followed […]
Chair, Wendy Hall leads panellists, Sinan Aral, Azeem Azhar, Noshir Contractor and Jaime Teevan in a discussion no less ambitious than to summarise what we learned from the last 15 years of Web Science and to predict what the next 15 years may hold. Abstract Web Science, as an interdiscipline, is celebrating its 15th year […]
In this talk, Deen Freelon talks about research data sourced from social media platforms to support computational research approaches in social science . Notes Despite its brevity, the essay “Computational research in the post-API age” (Freelon, 2018) sparked an interdisciplinary discussion about options for collecting and analyzing social media data at a time when platforms […]
In this talk, Jennifer Zhu Scott talks about the need to create global inclusive data infrastructures and processes to address global issue Notes Technology has become a transformative force in almost every aspect of our lives. It permeates our personal, economic, and political life. However, large for-profit tech companies or a handful of tech-savvy governments dominate […]
This panel will tackle the ambitious challenge of examining the intersection of emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the production of news media in an online environment. Notes Worldwide, there are vast disparities in the ways in which digital government is enacted. The ‘splinternet’, or Balkanisation of the internet, heralds deep shifts in how people […]
This panel will tackle the ambitious challenge of examining the intersection of emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the production of news media in an online environment. Notes The assembled panellists represent a diverse range of perspectives, from industry to academia, and an array of professional backgrounds. The speakers on this panel will address critical […]