Featured Paper

Find Me If You Can: Improving Geographical Prediction with Social and Spatial Proximity by Lars Backstrom, Eric Sun and Cameron Marlow (Facebook).

GEO SEARCH: Wednesday, 2:00PM – 3:30PM, Room 302C

Wednesday, April 28, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Open Government and the World Wide Web

The opening ceremony of WWW2010 will include a plenary panel offering perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic on the move to make data more open and accessible on the Web (data.gov and data.gov.uk). The panel features inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee; Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero; Professor James Hendler of RPI, who will moderate the discussion; UNC professor and Director of iBiblio.org, Paul Jones; Andrew McLaughlin, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Executive Office of the President; and University of Southampton Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Director of the Web Science Trust and Web Foundation.

Wednesday, April 28, 9:00–10:30 AM, Ballroom A

Vint Cerf: Bandwidth, Clouds and Things, Oh My!

Vint Cerf

What happens when bandwidth isn’t a bottleneck? What happens when end to end speeds approach or exceed a gigabit per second? What happens when billions of devices populate the Internet, including appliances? What happens when the smart grid meets the Internet of Things and clouds interconnect in a rainbow of photons? How does this transform the World Wide Web? These and other ideas will occupy our attention as we explore a speculative future.

Vint Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company.

Widely known as a “Father of the Internet,” Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them “at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment.”

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Paper Highlight

Crowdsourcing Scholarly Data by Diep Thi Hoang, Jasleen Kaur and Filippo Menczer.

Web Science Conference 2010
Paper Session 4: Web & Intelligence (10:30 - 12:15, Tuesday, April 27)

Paper Highlight

Could the Web be a Temporary Glitch? by Leslie Carr, Cathy Pope and Susan Halford.

Web Science Conference 2010
Paper Session 4: Web & Intelligence (10:30 - 12:15, Tuesday, April 27)

Paper Highlight

Standing on the shoulders of the trusted web: Trust, Scholarship and Linked Data by Matthew Gamble and Carole Goble.

Web Science Conference 2010
Paper Session 3: Web & Data (16:00 - 17:30, Monday, April 26)

Paper Highlight

Intimacy 2.0: Privacy Rights and Privacy Responsibilities on the World Wide Web by Kieron O’Hara

Web Science Conference 2010
Paper Session 1: Web & Society (10:30 - 12:15, Monday, April 26)

Paper Highlight

Understanding how Twitter is used to widely spread Scientific Messages by Julie Letierce, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin and Stefan Decker.

Web Science Conference 2010
Paper Session 2: Web & Communities(14:00 - 15:30, Monday, April 26)

Attendees to #WWW2010, #websci10, #w4a10 have a number of good choices for eating and entertainment nearby to the Raleigh Convention Center.

Attendees to WWW2010 can expect a pleasant week of springtime weather with relatively clear skies and daytime high temperatures between 70-80ºF (21-27ºC).

Ten-day forecast from Weather.com.