Conference History
The World Wide Web was first conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The first conference of the series, WWW1, was held at CERN in 1994 and organized by Robert Cailliau. The IW3C2 was founded by Joseph Hardin and Robert Cailliau later in 1994 and has been responsible for the conference series ever since. Except for 1994 and 1995 when two conferences were held each year, WWWn became an annual event held in late April or early May. The location of the conference rotates among North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2001 the conference designator changed from a number (1 through 10) to the year it is held; i.e., WWW11 became known as WWW2002, and so on.
The WWW Conference series aims to provide the world a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The conferences bring together researchers, developers, users and commercial ventures – indeed all who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer.
The conferences are organized by the IW3C2 in collaboration with Local Organizing Committees and Technical Program Committees. The series provides an open forum in which all opinions can be presented, subject to a strict process of peer review.
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April 26-30, 2010 Raleigh, NC (USA) Conference Chairs: Michael Rappa and Paul Jones Program Chairs: Juliana Friere and Soumen Chakrabarti Hosts: North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
The WWW2010 logo incorporates the three W’s in an oak leaf to celebrate the host city, Raleigh, known as the “City of Oaks.” The logo also suggests the “Green” environmentally-friendly initiatives central to the area, the time and the event. |
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April 20-24, 2009 Madrid, Spain Conference Chairs: Juan Quemada and Gonzalo León Program Chairs: Yoelle Maarek and Wolfgang Nejdl Host: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
WWW2009 included 105 peer-reviewed papers selected from 823 submissions. The papers delivered at the meeting represented the work of 800 authors working in 300 research organizations worldwide. |
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April 21-25, 2008 Beijing, China Conference Chairs: Robin Chen and Jinpeng Huai Program Chairs: Wei-Ying Ma, Andrew Tomkins and Xiaodong Zhang Host: Beihang University |
First time the conference was held in mainland China. More than 800 papers were submitted for review and only 103 were chosen. To address important emerging areas of interest, WWW2008 introduced three new tracks: Social Networks and Web 2.0, Rich Media, and Internet Monetization. |
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May 8-12, 2007 Banff, Canada Conference Chairs: Carey Williamson and Mary Ellen Zurko Program Chairs: Peter Patel-Schneider and Prashant Shenoy Host: University of Calgary |
WWW2007 had 982 delegates, from 40 countries. |
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May 22-26, 2006 Edinburgh, Scotland (UK) Conference Chairs: Leslie Carr, David De Roure, and Arun Iyengar Program Chairs: Carole Goble and Mike Dahlin Host: University of Southampton |
The 2006 conference came to the UK for the first time, and was held in Scotland’s historic capital at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. WWW2006 attracted over 1500 delegates. |
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May 10-14, 2005 Chiba, Japan Conference Chairs: Tatsuya Hagino and Allan Ellis Program Chair: Fred Douglis and Prabhakar Raghavan Host: Keio University |
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May 17-22, 2004 New York, NY (USA) Conference Chairs: Stuart Feldman and Mike Uretsky Program Chairs: Marc Najork and Craig Wills |
Received 506 submissions to the referred paper track the second-highest submissions ever. We accepted 74 papers for the proceedings and presentation at the conference, which translates into an acceptance rate of 14.6%. |
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May 20-24, 2003 Budapest, Hungary Conference Chairs: Péter Bakonyi, Gusztáv Hencsey and Bebo White Program Chairs: László Kovács, Steve Lawrence and Robin Chen Host: Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
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May 6-11, 2002 Honolulu, HI (USA) Conference Chair: David Lassner Program Chairs: Dave De Roure and Arun Iyengar Hosts: University of Hawaii and the Pacific Telecom Council (PTC) |
A new tradition began in 2002. WWW conference titles began to reflect the year in which they were held rather than their numerical order. WWW1 - WWW9 were followed by WWW2002 to present day WWW2010. |
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May 1-5, 2001 Hong Kong, China Conference Chairs: Nabuo Saito and Vincent Shen Program Chairs: Michael Lyu and Mary Ellen Zurko Hosts: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, et al. |
The 257 authors of the accepted refereed papers came from six continents and 20 countries, making WWW10 a truly international conference. 146 of the authors were from academia; 111 were from industry. The distribution of authors among continents was: Africa 3, Asia 32, South America 4, Europe 61, Australia 6, North America 151. |
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May 15-19, 2000 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Conference Chairs: Ivan Herman and Albert Vezza Program Chair: Dick Bulterman Host: National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science |
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May 11-14, 1999 Toronto, Canada Conference Chairs: Albert Vezza, Murray Maloney and Robert Cailliau Program Chair: Alberto Mendelzon |
To mark the passing of the first ten years, a special space was dedicated to collecting material on Web history. Participants were invited to bring anything they knew or owned that celebrated the first ten years of the WWW conferences. |
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April 14-18, 1998 Brisbane, Australia Conference Chair: Allan Ellis Program Chairs: Helen Ashman and Paul Thistlewaite Host: Charles Sturt University, the Distributed Systems Technology Centre, the Prentice Centre, the Information Industries Branch (Queensland) and Southern Cross University |
The WWW7 logo was specifically commissioned for the conference. Teresa Yasserie designed “The Gathering Place,” it incorporates common symbols in Aboriginal Australian artworks. |
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April 7-11, 1997 Santa Clara, CA (USA) Conference Chairs: Christine Quinn and Bebo White Program Chairs: Michael Genesereth and Anna Patterson Hosts: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Stanford University |
The design for the April 1997 conference in Santa Clara, California, retained traditional verdant tones in the Ws, but interpreted them anew with a warm neo-Mediterranean cast reflecting the heritage of the Golden State. The dimensionality suggested by all of the previous conference logos is here given a California twist, rendered in a triangular shape which, when animated, makes the faces of all three Ws equally accessible. |
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May 6-10, 1996 Paris, France Conference Chair: Jean-François Abramatic Program Chair: Bob Hopgood Host: Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) |
The final statistics show that more than 2,300 delegates from 51 different countries attended the conference sessions and more than 15,000 visited the exhibition. |
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December 11-14, 1995 Boston, MA (USA) Conference Chairs: Ira Goldstein and Albert Vezza Program Chair: Tim Berners-Lee Host: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science |
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April 10-14, 1995 Darmstadt, Germany Conference Chair: Detlef Krömker Program Chairs: Tim Berners-Lee and Detlef Krömker Hosts: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft/Institute for Graphic Design (FhG/IGD); Technical University of Darmstadt |
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October 17-20, 1994 Chicago, IL (USA) Host: National Center for Supercomputing Applications, (NCSA) |
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May 25-27, 1994 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Conference Chair: Robert Cailliau Program Chair: Oscar Nierstrasz Host: Centre Universitaire d’Informatique |
The three days in Geneva were attended by 380 participants from all over the world. The first logo, developed by Robert Cailliau showed three Ws emerging from a deep forest green to a brilliant proximate white. |
