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The WWW2010 Program Committee is pleased to announce its selection of 90 Posters for display at the conference.

The deadline for early registration to WWW2010 has been extended to March 1. Please take advantage of the discount and register before then.

As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to support women in computing and technology, we are pleased to announce the 2010 Google WWW Female Student Grants to encourage more female computer science students to attend and participate in the WWW 2010 Conference, April 26-30, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.  We invite all female computer science PhD students to apply.

Two people will be chosen from the applicant pool to receive $1500 USD towards conference registration, travel, and accommodation costs.

To be eligible for a conference grant, candidates must be:

• A female student enrolled and pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or technical field related to conference subjects
• Maintaining a strong academic background
• Able to attend the full conference

How To Apply

To apply, complete an application by Friday, March 5, 2010.  Application goes live on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.

Winners and claim process

The winners will be notified by e-mail by Friday, March 12, March 19, 2010, and their names will be published on the conference webpage.  If you are a successful applicant, you will receive payment in person at WWW 2010 by presenting the letter from Google announcing your award to the travel award program coordinator.  Pre-payment of the $1500 USD travel grant will not be provided.

Registration is now open for WWW2010 and its collocated conferences, W4A2010, WebSci10 and FutureWeb.

• Early registration discounts for WWW2010 are extended to February 18 March 1.

Turning back the clock on fees

Mindful of skyrocketing conference fees, the WWW2010 local organizing committee has worked diligently to keep the Raleigh conference costs low. Registration fees this year are comparable or below past years (exchange rate fluctuations make precise year-to-year comparisons difficult with venues held outside the U.S.). As a matter of curiosity, looking back as far as WWW2002 (in Hawaii) and WWW6 (in Santa Clara in 1997), the registration fees for a 5-day pass were actually higher than current rates, with a discount for academics—a practice that ended in 2005.

Key factors in keeping down conference fees this year have been to avoid lock-in contracts with hotels, negotiate fair contracts with the conference center and management team, and to plan and budget carefully. Also, WWW2010 is going “Green” with a number of environmentally-friendly practices that help to reduce costs. Conference attendees will find Raleigh to be a relatively low cost metropolitan area of the country.

To keep your own costs low the organizing committee suggests attendees register early, secure economical air transportation, if needed, and book a room early with one of several conveniently located hotels that best suits your budget.

Collocated Conferences

Regarding the three collocated conferences, W4A2010, WebSci10 and FutureWeb, attendees should register early—space is limited in these venues.

Learn more about how to register: Registration Information

The WWW2010 organizing committee is please to acknowledge the generous support of  Yahoo! and Google — the first two major corporate sponsors to be announced for the Raleigh conference in April.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most visited Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!’s vision is to be the center of people’s online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

About Google

In little more than a decade, Google created one of the world’s largest global computing infrastructures for both internal and external use. Using our unique technologies along with open source tools, we keep Google’s customer-facing products running, robust and secure. Our objective is to create solutions that allow people to work and communicate in new and innovative ways – giving back to the world’s technical community whenever we can.

WWW2010 Tutorials

The Program Committee has selected eleven Tutorials for inclusion at WWW2010:

• Web Search Engine Metrics (Direct Metrics to Measure User Satisfaction)
• Introduction to Social Recommendation
• Recent Progress on Inferring Web Searcher Intent
• Linking Content in Unstructured Sources
• SPARQL By Example – Unlocking the Semantic Web
• Optimal Marketing and Pricing Over Social Networks
• Applications of Open Search Tools
• Web Search/Browse Log Mining: Challenges, Methods, and Applications
• Enterprise and Desktop Search
• RESTful Web Services: Principles, Patterns, Emerging Technologies
• How to Consume Linked Data on the Web

All of the tutorials will be scheduled alongside Workshops on April 26-27. See the Tutorials page for further details.

Author notifications are out for the WWW2010 technical papers. A total of 104 papers were accepted for presentation from a pool of 743 submissions (14.0% acceptance rate).

The WWW 2010 program committee workshop chairs—Amélie Marian, AC Surendran and Sebastiano Vigna—are pleased to announce there will be eleven collocated Workshops as part of the WWW 2010 conference program on April 26 and 27. The workshops include:

• First International Workshop on Web Science and Information Exchange in the Medical Web (MedEx 2010)
• The Future of the Web for Collaborative Science
• International Workshop on Massive Data Analytics over the Cloud (MDAC 2010)
• Third Workshop on Mashups, Enterprise Mashups and Lighweight Composition on the Web (MEM 2010)
• Semantic Search 2010 Workshop
• First International Workshop on RESTful Design (WS-REST 2010)
• First Workshop on the Semantics of Visual Objects
• Fourth Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW2010)
• Augmented Reality and Virtual Interactivity (MobEA 2010)
• Third International Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW 2010)
• First Workshop on Multilingual Semantic Web (MSW 2010)

Interested authors should check the workshop web sites for further information, CFPs, and relevant deadlines.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has joined its sister institution North Carolina State University as co-host of the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010). The conference will be held at the Raleigh Convention Center next April and will bring over 1000 computer scientists and engineers together for a week long series of presentations about the future technologies of the Web.

Participating units at UNC include the Department of Computer Science, the Gillings School of Global Public Health, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Office of Research & Economic Development, Information Technology Services, and iBiblio.

The effort at NC State is led by the Institute for Advanced Analytics.

About UNC:

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, was chartered in 1789 and opened to students in 1795. Today, UNC ranks among the great institutions of higher education in the U.S. The University enrolls more than 28,000 students who are taught by a 3,100-member faculty. UNC’s nationally acclaimed academics offer opportunities for public service, leadership, global study and research.

About NC State University:

With more than 31,000 students and nearly 8,000 faculty and staff, North Carolina State University is a comprehensive university known for its leadership in education and research, and globally recognized for its science, technology, engineering and mathematics leadership. It is the largest academic institution in North Carolina, located in Raleigh, one of the country’s most dynamic and thriving metropolitan areas.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University are part of the 16-campus University of North Carolina System.

7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2010) will be held at the Raleigh Convention Center on April 26-27 as a collocated conference with WWW2010. The theme for this year’s conference is “Developing Regions: Common Goals, Common Problems?” Please see the W4A website for the time line for author submissions.