"Web pioneer Dame Wendy Hall on the future of the internet"
Wendy Hall interviewed in the Life and Arts section of the FT. She discusses the multidisciplinary nature of Web Science, personal data, cyber crime and women in IT.
Collective Intelligence in Citizen Science – A Study of Performers and Talkers
A paper by Ramine Tinati, Max Van Kleek, Elena Simperl, Markus Luczak-Roesch and Nigel Shadbolt, on online citizen science projects, in which volunteers help solve problems in a wide range of scientific areas using their own I.T.
The authors describe a research project to examine whether the volunteers’ participation in online discussion forums influences the likelihood of a solution being found to the problem.
Examining Wikipedia across Linguistic and Temporal Borders
A paper by Ramine Tinati, Paul Gaskell, Thanassis Tiropanis, Olivier Phillipe and Wendy Hall which presents a
framework for addressing cultural and language barriers when studying human activity on a global scale.
Keynote talk by Nigel Shadbolt at Wikimania 2014 on Social Machines
A video of Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt’s talk at Wikimania 2014 in which he discusses the Social Machines project SOCIAM and explains why Wikipedia is a Social Machine.
The Web Science Observatory – The Challenges of Analytics over Distributed Linked Data Infrastructures
An article by by Wendy Hall, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ramine Tinati, Xin Wang, Markus Luczak-Rösch and Elena Simperl on a research project called the Web Observatory which seeks to address the challenges of analytics on distributed Linked Data infrastructures.
Exploiting Multimedia in Creating and Analysing Multimedia Web Archives
A paper by Jonathon S. Hare, David P. Dupplaw, Paul H. Lewis, Wendy Hall and Kirk Martinez, presenting new techniques to allow multimedia web content to be leveraged during the archiving process.
Nigel Shadbolt named new Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt will take up the post on the 1st of August 2015.
In addition to his role at Jesus College, Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt will be appointed to a professorship at the University of Oxford Department of Computer Science.
7 Billion Home Telescopes: Observing Social Machines through Personal Data Stores
A paper by Max Van Kleek, Daniel Alexander Smith, Ramine Tinati, Kieron O’Hara, Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt on methods to overcome privacy issues by keeping data under individuals’ control and enabling them to participate in Web-Observatory style analysis in situ.
Wendy Hall selected for Longitude Prize steering committee
The prize has a £10m fund to be awarded for solutions to one of the most important problems of our time.
The public will choose the issue they would most like to be solved from a choice of 6:
1) How can we ensure everyone can have access to safe and clean water?
2) How can we ensure everyone has nutritious, sustainable food?
3) How can we restore movement to those with paralysis?
4) How can we prevent the rise of resistance to antibiotics?
5) How can we fly without damaging the environment?
6) How can we help people with dementia live independently for longer?
Vote here
The original Board of Longitude was a committee set up in the 18th century to judge ideas for measuring longitude to enable navigation. The new committee for the 2014 Longitude Prize will judge ideas for solutions for the problem chosen by the public. The committee is chaired by Lord Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal. Other members include Dr Philip Campbell, Editor in Chief of Nature, Iain Gray, Chief Executive of the Technology Strategy Board, Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer and Sir Mark Walport, the Chief Scientific Advisor.
Wendy Hall for the BCS on Women in IT
Professor Dame Wendy Hall’s blog for the British Computer Society, which is part of its campaign to encourage women to consider a career in I.T. She discusses her career history, how she came to be passionate about Computer Science and the reasons for women being better represented in the new discipline of Web Science than in other areas of I.T.