Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WEB SCIENCE AND FRACTALS
Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web Consortium
Monday, October 22, 2007 4:00-5:30 pm
NE20, Room 336 Conference Room (3 Cambridge Center)
Slides from This Past Seminar are Available
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Abstract
The scale of the Web has increased, and academic, commercial, government and artistic use of the web have waxed and waned as centers of attention. Emergent phenomena and carefully orchestrated transitions have each effected large changes. We are exploring the essence of what it means to be web-like: connected, decentralized, fractal and tangled. Is it time for us to plan more? Can we start to understand the web itself as a complex system? Should we look at it more as the web of people than a web of pages?
Speaker bio
A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim Berners-Lee holds the 3Com Founders chair and is a Senior Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is co-Director of the new Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) and is a Chair in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK. He directs the World Wide Web Consortium, founded in 1994.
In 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP. and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.
In 2001 he became a fellow of the Royal Society. He has been the recipient of several international awards including the Japan Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany's Die Quadriga award. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth. He is the author of "Weaving the Web.
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