The Royal Society, UK, has announced that as part of the Society's 350th anniversary celebrations, a two-day discussion meeting on Web Science will take place in London on September 27 and 28. The Royal Society discussion meetings will address the major scientific questions of the 21st century, aiming to identify and map out vital subjects that will help set the agenda for future generations of scientists.
'Web Science: A New Frontier' is organised by Professor Nigel Shadbolt and Professor Dame Wendy Hall of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton; Professor James Hendler of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and Professor Bill Dutton of the University of Oxford. Professors Shadbolt, Hall and Hendler are Directors of the Web Science Trust, which was established in 2009 to advance education and research in Web Science for the public benefit.
The Royal Society meeting will address questions such as 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? The interdisciplinary meeting will discuss these and other issues as it presents the components of a Science of the Web.
Registration for the event has now closed. Those who want to join the event will now be able to do so through a live webcast on RoyalSociety.tv The majority of the presentations will then be available to view on demand at RoyalSociety.tv with slides approximately three weeks after the end of the meeting.
During the live webcast, viewers will be encouraged to interact with the discussion meeting using Twitter hash tag #RSWebSci. Bill Thompson will be acting as a special Twitter chair, and will be posing some of questions that have been tweeted.
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