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 […]
At the Web Science Institute seminar held earlier this week WST board advisor, Anni Rowland-Campbell spoke on the socio-technical changes that are happening in the world as a result of the Social Machine, which began with the World Wide Web. The talk focused on Tim Berners-Lee proposal of the Web where the “people do the creative work and the machine […]
It’s been announced that Prof. Sir Nigel Shadbolt, a WST Board Member, is to be the next Principal of Jesus College Oxford. At Southampton, Nigel is Professor of Artificial Intelligence. Since 2009, he has also been an advisor to the UK Government across a range of data related topics. In 2012, he co-founded the Open Data Institute with […]
Interview with Jim Hendler on Social Media and Collective Intelligence (This interview was first Published online: 12 December 2012 in the German Journal on Artificial Intelligence) James A. Hendler is the Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science and the Head of the Computer Science Department at RPI. He also serves as a Director […]