Shaping a Web That Better Serves Humanity

One hundred million nodes – that’s the number of servers now interconnected on the Internet, writes Catherine Varmazis. Citing the rapid growth of the World Wide Web over the last decade, a group of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the U.K.’s University of Southampton believe the Web is now so large as to require its own field of study if it is to evolve systematically and serve humanity optimally.

At a briefing held at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday 9 November, the scientists announced the formation of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), the purpose of which is to produce the scientific advances necessary to guide the future design and use of the Web. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the WSRI will generate a research agenda for understanding the scientific, technical, and social challenges underlying the growth of the Web. WSRI researchers will address how Web-based information is accessed, and its reliability. Legal questions and social networks – how people use the Web to communicate – will be critical areas of study.

Full article: http://www.bio-itworld.com/newsitems/2006/nov/11-06-06-wsri

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