Briefly: Southampton and MIT launch Web Science collaboration

The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) is a joint endeavour between the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. The goal of WSRI is to facilitate and produce the fundamental scientific advances necessary to inform the future design and use of the World Wide Web.

The initiative will have four founding directors: Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, senior research scientist at MIT and professor at the University of Southampton; Wendy Hall, professor of computer science and head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton; Nigel Shadbolt, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Southampton and director of the Advanced Knowledge Technologies Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration; and Daniel J. Weitzner, Technology and Society Domain leader of the World Wide Web Consortium and principal research scientist at MIT. Jim Hendler, professor of computer science at the University of Maryland is appointed Associate Director.

Publications:
+ The Semantic Web Revisited
Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Tim Berners-Lee
IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal

+ Web Science Workshop Report
12th-13th September, 2005. Hosted by the British Computer Society, London

+ Foundations and Trends in Web Science: Volume 1, Issue 1
A Framework for Web Science
By Tim-Berners Lee (MIT), Wendy Hall (University of Southampton), James A. Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic University), Kieron O’Hara (University of Southampton), Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) and Daniel J. Weitzner (MIT). Free access to full text.

+ Creating a Science of the Web

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