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Open Data Institute will act as biz incubator

...previously lined up to be the directors of a new Institute for Web Science at Southampton University. However, that scheme was scrapped in 2010 when... Read more

23 May, 2012 by David Meyer

Researchers win funds for semantic business intelligence

...BIS) announced it was scrapping its proposed funding for the Institute of Web Science. The institute would have been focused on the development of the... Read more

24 August, 2010 by Jack Clark

Berners-Lee, BBC, Vodafone focus on web's potential

...these web applications can have a significant impact. "The real challenge of web science is when we design a little system, how big is the... Read more

21 April, 2011 by Tim Ferguson
<endeca_term>Web-science</endeca_term> pioneer is made a dame

Web-science pioneer is made a dame

...continues to work prominently in the fields of the semantic web and web science. She was instrumental in the creation of the Microcosm hypermedia system... Read more

2 January, 2009 by David Meyer

Web Science, texting, and creative misuse

...invented it, Tim Berners-Lee would know how the web worked. The Web Science project he wants to launch will study the World Wide Web... Read more

2 November, 2006

Berners-Lee pushes web science

...Southampton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Thursday announced the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), a multidisciplinary project to study the social and... Read more

3 November, 2006 by Martin LaMonica

Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study

Producing the Googlers of the future… The study of web science is being promoted by a group of top academics to lay... Read more

14 July, 2008 by Tim Ferguson
A Component Framework for Building <endeca_term>Web Science</endeca_term> Gateways and Portals

A Component Framework for Building Web Science Gateways and Portals

Portlet-based Grid portals have become a crucial part of the international distributed computing infrastructure to... Read more

1 March, 2008

Government scraps Becta, plans £95m in IT cost cuts

...by then-PM Gordon Brown in March — for a new Institute of Web Science. The institute would have been focused on the development of the... Read more

24 May, 2010 by David Meyer
Issue-by-issue: parties' tech policies compared

Issue-by-issue: parties' tech policies compared

...TECH ELECTION 2010 PROMOTING AND STRENGTHENING THE UK TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY Labour: sees web science, particularly the semantic web, as an area where the UK can... Read more

16 April, 2010 by David Meyer

Labour trumpets open-source success

...30m to support the creation of a new institute — the Institute of Web Science — based here in Britain and working with government and British business... Read more

12 April, 2010 by David Meyer

Gordon Brown spends £30m to plug Britain into semantic web

...will be run by world wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee and web science expert professor Nigel Shadbolt - will research how the private sector could... Read more

22 March, 2010 by Nick Heath

Labour promises 'Mygov' dashboard for all

...Brown also announced £30m of government funding for a new Institute of Web Science, dedicated to research in this area. The prime minister's speech... Read more

22 March, 2010 by David Meyer

Gov't grants £250m for tech-research centres

...centres are digital media (Bath and Lancaster universities), financial computing (UCL) and web science (Southampton). The plan is to build relationships between universities and industry... Read more

8 December, 2008 by Tim Ferguson
Berners-Lee unveils scheme to achieve 'One Web'

Berners-Lee unveils scheme to achieve 'One Web'

...the web serves humanity by connecting people. An academic program called the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) helps drive technology innovation. But the web has... Read more

15 September, 2008 by Martin LaMonica

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