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Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Web Science Research

ATCA - November 06, 2006

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has launched the Web Science Research Initiative. The inventor of the World Wide Web wants to make it an object of scientific inquiry.

Dear ATCA Colleagues; dear IntentBloggers

[Please note that the views presented by individual contributors are not necessarily representative of the views of ATCA, which is neutral. ATCA conducts collective Socratic dialogue on global opportunities and threats.]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and a member of ATCA, has announced the launch of a long-term research collaboration between MIT and the University of Southampton that aims to turn the web itself into a fundamental science. The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) will generate a research agenda to understand the scientific, technical and social challenges underlying the growth of the web.

Research will focus on the volume of information on the web which documents more and more aspects of human activity and knowledge. The WSRI research projects will weigh such questions as:

. How do we access information and assess its reliability?
. By what means may we assure its use complies with social and legal rules?
. How will we preserve the web over time?'

"As the web celebrates its first decade of widespread use, we still know surprisingly little about how it evolved," said Sir Tim Berners-Lee. "We have only scratched the surface of what could be realised with deeper scientific investigation into its design, operation and impact on society. The WSRI will allow researchers to take the web seriously as an object of scientific inquiry, with the goal of helping to foster the web's growth and fulfil its great potential as a powerful tool for humanity."

The initiative will provide a global forum for scientists and scholars to collaborate on the first scientific research effort specifically designed to study the web and to develop a new discipline of science for future generations of researchers. WSRI will be headquartered at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and at the School of Electronics and Computer Science (SECS) at the University of Southampton.

Prof Wendy Hall, head of school at SECS, an ATCA member, and a founding director of WSRI, said, "As the web continues to evolve, it is becoming increasingly clear that a new type of graduate will be required to meet the needs of science and industry. Already we are seeing evidence of this, with major internet companies and research institutions lamenting the fact that there are simply not enough people with the right mix of skills to meet current and future employment demands."

[ENDS]

We look forward to your further thoughts, observations and views. Thank you.

Best wishes


For and on behalf of DK Matai
Chairman, Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance (ATCA)
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ATCA: The Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance is a philanthropic expert initiative founded in 2001 to resolve complex global challenges through collective Socratic dialogue and joint executive action to build a wisdom based global economy. Adhering to the doctrine of non-violence, ATCA addresses opportunities and threats arising from climate chaos, radical poverty, organised crime & extremism, advanced technologies -- bio, info, nano, robo & AI, demographic skews, pandemics and financial systems. Present membership of ATCA is by invitation only and has over 5,000 distinguished members from over 100 countries: including several from the House of Lords, House of Commons, EU Parliament, US Congress & Senate, G10's Senior Government officials and over 1,500 CEOs from financial institutions, scientific corporates and voluntary organisations as well as over 750 Professors from academic centres of excellence worldwide.
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Posted by ATCA at November 6, 2006 02:49 AM

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"We have only scratched the surface of what could be realised with deeper scientific investigation into its design"

This is the same scientists tell us about the working of our brain :)

So you are right on schedule :)

I do appreciate your initiative!

Yes, it is a very interesting science, transforming society as we speak.

Most notable is that information that at one time took several hours to find now takes literally seconds.

I have been on the Internet for 12 years. In 1995 I wrote a popular white paper on the potential for the Internet, at that time many companies were kind of scoffing at it. Every thing I wrote came to be.

Internet potential Phase II is in the works, we are far from full utilization which will occur when we finally establish a Universal Information System. Other unrealized potential is going to be very dramatic and some of it very interesting never possible or done before.

The Internet provides amazing insights into the group mind and our collective being.

The marketing departments have really impaired technology and created a lot of unecessary complexity and confusion.

The Internet has become an entity unto itself with it's own collective will.

In other ways it provides a manner of navigating many individual minds with a few key strokes and mouse clicks.

But anyway...

MIND FLUFF

Take the phrase "Mind Fluff" about 4 years ago it had zero occurances. I am not sure if it really existed as a phrase already or not, but I just sort of made it up. Used it in one discussion forum to see how it would spread and sure enough it did. Can't say for certain it didn't spontaneously occur in other minds. A year ago I used it on this blog http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2005/11/while_america_s_1.html.

So anyway I have been watching it's usage spread. I got some one else to use it in a video that a lot of people will see, so it will be interesting to see it's spread as a result of that.

Web Count = 2,550
Usenet / google Group = 101
Blog Count = 81
News = 0
Books = 0

"Mind Fluff" is the almost meaningless "head" filler used by the media to occupy communications channel bandwidth, leaving no space for subjects and issues of importance. In effect directing attention away from issues and topics of real concern maintaining popular public ignorance.

I used mind fluff, several times in this comment regarding mind fluff, when people search on mind fluff, this text should show up due to increase relevance, leading them on a path away from mind fluff to substantial mind stuff, void of mind fluff.

Ego Chatter is another (expereiment in my laboratory for the mind the Internet) currently at 444 web references. "Ego Chatter"

What is neat is that I can search the planet noosphere and find the minds that will entertain this concept / thought, (ego chatter) leading me to a like minded group which I can then communicate with etc.

Of course this is just the surface...

Ego chatter is the thoughts, often verbalized, that arise as a result of the Illusion of separation. Often based on fear, denial, blame, avoidance, and pure ignorance lacking wisdom and intelligence.

The public air waves are filled with ego chatter when the voice of spirit rises above the ego chatter great changes will be wrought.

Thanks DK and ATCA for bringing us the current efforts of Tim Berners-Lee, who is the real "Al -Gore-'inventor'-of-the-Internet" who was/is soooo.....instrumental in all of us even being able to "Socratically dialogue" on such forums as the Intentblog.

What a double-whammy of how this current work--the truest example of the "Observer effect" observing how It's own observations of the Collective-Self is accelerating, at a geometric progression (vs. arithmetically at a linear rate)--and what untold and unforseeable good this will bring to record our own leap-in-evolution this work will foster.

"Good on You"--DK and ATCA, and Tim Berners-Lee and WSRI--Thank You!!!--Dave

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