Keynote Speaker
 

"The Emergence of Web Science"   By Prof. Bebo White   Stanford University, USA

Abstract

For almost two decades the World Wide Web has been largely described in terms of the technologies, infrastructure, processes, and methods that define it and the applications it supports. In contrast, the emerging discipline of Web Science seeks to understand the phenomenon that is the Web as an independent entity and the ecology in which it exists. In addition, Web Science explores the roles and the impact that the Web has had and will continue to have in the 21st century. As a result, studies in Web Science will help us to understand how the technology might evolve and how we can be prepared for the future Web.

Bio

Professor Bebo White is a Departmental Associate (emeritus) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), the national high-energy physics laboratory at Stanford University. In addition, he holds faculty appointments at the University of Hong Kong and the University of San Francisco. He was a member of the team that established at SLAC the first website in the United States and the fifth in the world. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and academic institutions, and for commercial organizations around the world. Professor White is a member of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) and the Executive Committee of ACM SIGWEB, and holds advisory positions with numerous technical organizations. He is the author of nine books, has written over 100 journal articles on topics ranging from high-energy physics to Internet and Web technology, and is a managing editor of the Journal of Web Engineering.
More information can be found at www.bebowhite.com.