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Not only did Tim Berners-Lee invent the Web, he also invented Web science

By Alpha Doggs on Tue, 12/16/08 - 2:06pm.
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Or so he writes in the October issue of Scientific American (OK, a little behind on my reading and I'm talking about the print version, though here's an abstract online).

MIT's Berners-Lee says that he and Nigel Hadbolt of the University of Southampton in England launched the discipline in 2006 along with their colleagues. They write that Web science was a natural follow-on to the Web as computer science was to computers. Web science involves examining the properties of the Web: How it works, how it might evolve and how lessons learned from the Web can be used to understand happenings in the world at large.

Berners-Lee of course also uses the article to update readers on his pet project, the Semantic Web, which in theory will make the Web a lot more useful by delivering users with much more detailed data when they conduct searches, etc.

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