[Air-l] Web Science a Field of Study

[Richard Forno]

(for those who havent' heard yet.......rf)

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton
in Britain plan to announce today that they are starting a joint research
program in Web science.

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web¹s basic software, is leading the
program. An Oxford-educated Englishman, Mr. Berners-Lee is a senior
researcher at M.I.T., a professor at the University of Southampton and the
director of the World Wide Web Consortium, an Internet standards-setting
organization.

Web science, the researchers say, has social and engineering dimensions. It
extends well beyond traditional computer science, they say, to include the
emerging research in social networks and the social sciences that is being
used to study how people behave on the Web. And Web science, they add,
shifts the center of gravity in engineering research from how a single
computer works to how huge decentralized Web systems work.

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