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Tim Berners-Lee .En este post traemos, por dos vías, el anuncio de Web science. Estudiar las implicaciones sociales del desarrollo de la web:
1) La noticia en el New York Times:
Group of University Researchers to Make Web Science a Field of Study
The Web has become such a force in commerce and culture that a group of leading university researchers now deems it worthy of its own field of study.
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 Web’s 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. (leer más…)
2) Una entrevista en BBC News
Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said he wants to set up a web science research project to study the social implications of the web’s development.
BBC Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh talked exclusively to the British web pioneer about his plans.
PG: What is web science?
TBL: Web science is a study of the web. It’s also the engineering of the web to make it more exciting than the one we currently have.
The nice thing about the internet is that it’s an open space which doesn’t have a central controlling place. It doesn’t have any constraining rules. I therefore tried to design the web in the same way – like a huge blank sheet of paper. And so the web in turn is giving rise to all these other phenomena.(leer más…)
Fuente: [The New York Times y BBC news]
tags: e-learning
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