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.
- Twentieth International WWW Conference
- Date: March 28-April 1, 2011
- location: Hyderabad, India
- Conference Chairs: Prof. S. Sadgopan and Prof. Krithi Ramamritham
- Nineteenth International WWW Conference
- Date: April 26-30, 2010
- location: 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
- Eighteenth International WWW Conference
- Date: April 20-24, 2009
- location: Madrid, Spain
- Conference Chairs: Juan Quemada and Gonzalo León
- Program Chairs: Yoelle Maarek and Wolfgang Nejdl
- Host: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Seventeenth International WWW Conference
- Date: April 21-25, 2008
- location: Beijing, China
- Conference Chairs: Robin Chen and Jinpeng Huai
- Program Chairs: Wei-Ying Ma, Andrew Tomkins and Xiaodong Zhang
- Host: Beihang University
- Sixteenth International WWW Conference
- Date: May 8-12, 2007
- location: Banff, Canada
- Conference Chairs: Carey Williamson and Mary Ellen Zurko
- Program Chairs: Peter Patel-Schneider and Prashant Shenoy
- Host: University of Calgary
- Fifteenth International WWW Conference
- Date: May 22-26, 2006
- location: Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
- Conference Chairs: Leslie Carr, David De Roure, and Arun Iyengar
- Program Chairs: Carole Goble and Mike Dahlin
- Host: University of Southampton
- Fourteenth International WWW Conference
- Date: May 10-14, 2005
- location: Chiba, Japan
- Conference Chairs: Tatsuya Hagino and Allan Ellis
- Program Chair: Fred Douglis and Prabhakar Raghavan
- Host: Keio University
- Thirteenth International WWW Conference
- Date: May 17-22, 2004
- location: New York, NY (USA)
- Conference Chairs: Stuart Feldman and Mike Uretsky
- Program Chairs: Marc Najork and Craig Wills
- Twelfth International WWW Conference
- Date: May 20-24, 2003
- location: 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
- Eleventh International WWW Conference
- Date: May 6-11, 2002
- location: 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)
- Tenth International WWW Conference
- Date: May 1-5, 2001
- location: 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.
- Ninth International WWW Conference
- Date: May 15-19, 2000
- location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Conference Chairs: Ivan Herman and Albert Vezza
- Program Chair: Dick Bulterman
- Host: National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science
- Eigth International WWW Conference
- Date: May 11-14, 1999
- location: Toronto, Canada
- Conference Chairs: Albert Vezza, Murray Maloney and Robert Cailliau
- Program Chair: Alberto Mendelzon
- Seventh International WWW Conference
- Date: April 14-18, 1998
- location: 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
- Sixth International WWW Conference
- Date: April 7-11, 1997
- location: 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
- Fifth International WWW Conference
- Date: May 6-10, 1996
- location: Paris, France
- Conference Chair: Jean-François Abramatic
- Program Chair: Bob Hopgood
- Host: Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)
- Fourth International WWW Conference
- Date: December 11-14, 1995
- location: Boston, MA (USA)
- Conference Chairs: Ira Goldstein and Albert Vezza
- Program Chair: Tim Berners-Lee
- Host: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
- Third International WWW Conference
- Date: 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
- Second International WWW Conference
- Date: October 17-20, 1994
- location: Chicago, IL (USA)
- Host: National Center for Supercomputing Applications, (NCSA)
- First International WWW Conference
- Date: May 25-27, 1994
- location: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- Conference Chair: Robert Cailliau
- Program Chair: Oscar Nierstrasz
- Host: Centre Universitaire d’Informatique
