2019 year’s web science summer school was held in Southampton, UK between the 8th and 13th of September. The summer school created its own site so click here for more information.
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 *)
For the 2016 US Presidential election, researchers at the University of Southampton with support from the EPSRC funded project SOCIAM, built a real-time data visualization that combined traditional polling data with social media posts. The application was built and designed for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute EMPAC Campfire, a novel multi-user, collaborative, immersive, computing interface that consist of a desk height […]
WSTNet Lab Directors got together at the start of the Web Science Conference this week in Hannover, Germany. Highlights of the meeting include the election of Steffen Staab as Chair and Pete Burnap as Vice-Chair, planning for this years’ Web Science Summer School at University of Koblenz (30 June to 6 July – #wwsss16), and firming up of arrangements for […]
Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Southampton University, believes in the power of open data. With Sir Tim Berners-Lee he persuaded two UK Prime Ministers of the importance of letting us all get our hands on information that’s been collected about us by the government and other organisations. But, this has brought him […]
Dr Phil Tetlow from IBM gave this months distinguished lecture to mark the start of his visiting professor term. If you browser does not support embedded video Click here to view his talk