Announcing the 11th International ACM Conference on Web Science will be held on June 30 – July 3, 2019, in Boston, MA, USA. The WebSci conference brings together researchers from multiple disciplines, like computer science, sociology, economics, information science, anthropology, and psychology. Web Science is the emergent study of the people and technologies, applications, processes, and […]
In June, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics held an event celebrating 10 years of Web Science. This event was organised by Susan Halford from the University of Southampton, James A. Hendler from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Eirini Ntoutsi the Leibniz University Hannover and Steffen Staab from the University of Koblenz-Landau. Participants came to discuss what […]
Written by Robert Thorburn Packed to the brim with more academic discourse, networking and interesting research than one can shake a stick at, the 2018 Web Science conference also delivered more than its fair share of special moments. Run over four days starting on Sunday the 27th of May, the conference was hosted by the […]
Last night was the WebSci 18 conference dinner, where we went on a boat trip through the canals of Amsterdam. There was a huge rainstorm, with thunder and lightning which relieved the tension in the air and allowed us all to arrive fresh to the conference this morning, for the last day. Today there is […]
This morning I entered the VU Amsterdam building to find a huge crowd of people waiting to see Tim Berners-Lee deliver his Turing Award Lecture as part of the Web Science conference. The crowd surged forward into the stunning Aula room and settled down to wait for Tim’s arrival. Hans Akkermans from VU introduced Tim […]
Today was the official opening of the Web Sci conference. The day started with a keynote session titled ‘Best of Web Science 2018’. The papers in this session were all nominated for the best paper award. All of the papers were good and presented some excellent work. Reuben Binns from Oxford University presented a paper […]
Written by Robert Thorburn The 2018 Web Science conference, hosted by the Vrije Universitieit Amsterdam, not only featured the broad range of subjects one would expect from an inherently interdisciplinary field but also had a couple of surprises. In addition to the much anticipated Turing lecture by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, there were two further keynote […]
ACM Web Science 2018 Conference – Events Day There was a full day with various themed events which could be attended, ranging from the dark web to ethics. There was a PhD symposium also, where students presented on their thesis topics. The digital sociology event which I attended, titled Understanding the political economy of digital […]
It is with extreme pleasure that we can announce a new lab has joined our network. The Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBC DSAI), is based at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and carries out cutting-edge research in Web Science. RBC DSAI has a variety of interesting research projects: natural […]