Will your computer science degree be replaced by a Web sciences one? It might as academics are increasingly dabbling with the study of the Web, but first a workable definition is needed. In a treatise ...

Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said he wants to set up a web science research project to study the social implications of the web's development. BBC Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh talked ...

The social interactions that glue the World Wide Web together are now so complex it has outgrown the relatively narrow field of computer science, say pioneering internet researchers. “You can’t tell ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--With the Web now into its second decade, leading lights in the Web world want to turn it from a phenomenon into a science. Representatives from the Massachusetts Institute of ...

It sounds too good to be true; a combined Masters and PhD degree with no fees to pay and a £13,000-a-year stipend to study the World Wide Web. Yet half the free places at the University of Southampton ...

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee had the sci-fi inspired name in mind, according to fellow innovator Wendy Hall, who spoke to CNET about the evolution of the World Wide Web. Aloysius Low is a Senior ...

Studying the Web will reveal better ways to exploit information, prevent identity theft, revolutionize industry, and manage our ever-growing online lives Since the World Wide Web blossomed in the ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Noshir Contractor has been named executive director of the Web Science Trust (WST), effective May 1, 2024. Contractor has served for the past 13 years as a director and ...

Prof Dame Wendy Hall invented a forerunner of the world wide web called the "open, hypermedia system" at the University of Southampton in 1984 The University of Southampton has launched England's ...

The Internet luminary and fellow researchers usher in a new project to study the Web's vast social and technological reach. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

In the august surroundings of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, in a lecture theatre decorated with 18th Century paintings, a crowd gathered on Tuesday morning to celebrate the birth of a new ...