Web Science Trust selects inaugural winner of Test of Time award
The Web Science Trust (WST) announced today that the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award was presented to the authors of the paper “Social media as a measurement tool of depression in populations”, Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech), Scott Counts (Microsoft...
R.I.P. Internet Explorer
From Today Microsoft will no longer offer support for Internet Explorer (IE) which racked up 11 versions from its debut 22 years ago in 2015. Microsoft had already flagged that it was retiring Internet Explorer for some time but given Microsoft users famous reticence...
Brave Conversations @ WebSci’22
Our next Brave Conversations event is coming up in a month’s time as a part of the 2022 Web Science Conference in Barcelona. The event will be held both in Barcelona (if you are keen to come along or live in Barcelona) or online via Zoom starting at 3 pm Central...
ACM WebSci’22: Call for participation
It is still time to register for this year’s ACM Web Science Conference! The ACM Web Science Conference will take place in Barcelona on June 26-29, 2022 and will be co-located with UMAP’22 and HT’22 conferences. WebSci’22 is organized as a hybrid conference and will...
Clearview fined £7.5m by Data Protection Watchdog
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued an enforcement notice ordering Clearview AI to cease collecting and using the personal data of UK residents, and to delete any such data that it may have stored on its systems on the grounds that 'People were not...
Jim Hendler on the History of the Semantic Web
WST Trustees Jim Hendler speaks abou the history of the Semantic Web on this recent Podcast. In this episode of The Index, host Alex Kehaya joins James Hendler, one of the originators of the semantic web and the Director of the Institute for Data Exploration and...
New WST White Paper on Privacy
Law has granted individuals some rights over the use of data about them, but data protection rights have not redressed the balance between the individual and the tech giants. A number of approaches aim to augment personal rights to allow individuals to police their...
In conversation with: Jennifer Zhu Scott
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...
WebSci21 – Video Vault No 11 – The Future of the Web and Society
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.[dipl_image_card...
WSTNet Lab Profile: Cardiff HateLab
Cardiff University is the home of a WSTNet lab with two related, but distinct groups: Pete Burnap's Social Data Lab (based on data visualisation and analysis using COSMOS) which makes social media analysis much more accessible for non-coding academics and also Matt...
Early NFT investor embarrassed by no resale interest
The recent surge in NFT coverage in tyhe technology and financial press was typified by the story of an early NFT auction in which an investor paid $2.9m for an NFT linked to Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey's first ever Tweet on the platform. This, it was claimed, was an...
Elon Musk to acquire Twitter for $44bn
Despite claiming in a recent interview that "technically" he could afford to purchase Twitter personally, Musk has chosen instead to fund the $44bn (£34.5bn) takeover with $21bn of his own money plus debt structures. The threatened poison pill response from the...
WebSci’22 Registration is open
-----------------------------------------------14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022 (WebSci'22)26-29 June, 2022Hybrid conference: Barcelona, Spain, and online (co-located with Hypertext 2022 and UMAP 2022 )https://websci22.webscience.org/ This year, the ACM Web...
Elon Musk Buys >9% of Twitter shares
The technology billionaire behind Tesla, Starlink, Neuralink and the Boring Company bought 9.2 per cent of the company, worth more than £2.2 billion, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr Musk is yet to publicly confirm or comment...
A message from the Web Foundation
Usually at this time of year we publish a letter to mark the anniversary of the web’s invention, reflecting on its role in our world and the tech challenges and opportunities we face. But these are not normal times. Alongside the rest of the world, we have been...
Experts warn on EU cyberlaw change
A proposed amendment to Article 45 in eIDAS would have a significant, negative impact on web users' security Leading cyber security experts, advocates and practitioners have urged EU lawmakers not to implement proposed changes for securing online transactions, which...
Turing Data Science Education Interest Group (SIG)
We are pleased to announce that the Data Science Education Interest Group has some exciting new projects in the pipeline (including a launch event – event details and registration can be found here) and we are seeking to add to our growing membership. We are...
In Conversation with: Bill Thompson
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...
WebSci’22 Deadline Extended
We thank everyone who submitted their papers to this year's ACM Web Science Conference. While the paper submission deadline has passed, it is still time to submit proposals for workshops or tutorials, to be held on site in Barcelona or online. The deadline for...
UTW Episode 35: Tim Berners-Lee
In this season finale, our guest is Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Tim is a professorial fellow of computer science at the University of Oxford and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....