- 9.00am – 5.00pm on 27 September 2010
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28 September 2010
Organised by Professor Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton), Professor Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton), Professor James Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Professor Bill Dutton (University of Oxford)./uploadedImages/Royal_Society_Content/Events/Events_Diary/Events_Diary_Archive/Web%20Image.JPG2010-09-27T:2010-09-28T:
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The World Wide Web has changed almost every aspect of modern life. It touches us all. The Web's billions of pages, links and other resources comprise the largest information fabric in the history of humanity. Yet the Web is rarely approached as an object of scientific study.
What processes have driven the Web's growth, and will they persist? How does large-scale structure emerge from a simple set of protocols? How does the Web work as a socio-technical system? What drives the viral uptake of certain Web phenomena? What might fragment the Web? This interdisciplinary meeting will discuss these and other issues as it presents the components of a Science of the Web.
On demand video and webcast
The Royal Society Dscussion Meeting Web Science: a new frontier was webcast live on RoyalSociety.tv. The recorded presentations with slides are available to watch on demand. Links to all presentations
During the live webcast, we encouraged viewers to interact with the discussion meeting using Twitter hash tag #RSWebSci. Dr Leslie Carr @lescarr, Jamillah Knowles @jemimah_knight, and Bill Thompson @billt acted as a special Twitter chairs. Please visit @RSWebSci for a selection of Tweets from the meeting.
Chairs:
Sir Michael Brady, Dame Janet Finch, Sir John Taylor
Speakers:
Professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Manuel Castells, Dr Jennifer Chayes, Professor Noshir Contractor, Professor Ramesh Jain, Lord Robert May of Oxford, Professor David Karger, Dr Anne-Marie Kermarrec. Professor Jon Kleinberg, Professor Pierre Levy, Professor Helen Margetts, Professor David Robertson, Professor Luis von Ahn, Professor Jianping Wu, Professor Jonathan Zittrain
Biographies of Speakers, Chairs and Organisers
Publication
The proceedings of this meeting are scheduled to be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions A.
Twitter
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