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Noshir Contractor Named Executive Director of Web Science Trust

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 ...
CNET

What if we called Web science 'psychohistory'? Internet pioneer recounts early notion

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 ...
ZDNet

Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study

The study of web science is being promoted by a group of top academics to lay the foundations for the future development of the world wide web. The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) is being led ...
ZDNet

Berners-Lee ushers in 'web science'

The Internet has hit a milestone in its evolution by being endowed with its own field of study, reports the New York Times. It's dubbed "web science" by Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web's basic ...