Cci. !todo. Jason Jesurum Jay. Robert Morris. Mark Klein Home Page. Southampton Start New Field of Web Sc. By Steve LohrTHE NEW YORK TIMES 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 on Thursday 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, Berners-Lee is a senior researcher at MIT, 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. “The Web isn’t about what you can do with computers,” Berners-Lee said.
The Web science program is an academic effort, but corporate technology executives and computer scientists said the research could greatly influence Web-based businesses. Handbook of Collective Intelligence - Handbook of Collective Int. Free / Open Source Research Community (Online Papers)