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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:45:18 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell () ncl ac uk> Date: March 24, 2010 11:02:49 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Institute of Web Science Dave: For IP if you wish. The UK Government has announced that it will be funding, to the tune of UKP 30M, an Institute of Web Science:
It is designed to make the UK the hub of international research into the next generation of web and internet technologies and their commercialisation, and was announced by the Prime Minister alongside plans for a radical opening up of information and data to put more power in people's hands. The Institute will conduct research, collaborate with businesses, identify opportunities for social and economic benefit, assist in commercialising research and help Government stimulate demand through procurement. The web was originally a place where people published documents that users could search and pick up. Web 2.0 has enabled users to contribute and create web content more easily. Web 3.0 will take the web to a whole new level by publishing data in a linkable format so that users and developers can see and exploit the relationships between different sets of information. The development of these technologies will create significant new opportunities for business and the public sector. The impact of these technologies is likely to be as important as the creation of the original web, and could generate large-scale economic benefits for the UK in the global market for web and internet technologies. The role of the Institute will be to undertake research and development, and act as a bridge between research and business, helping commercialise these new technologies. It will also advise Government on how semantic technologies can be used in the public sector, and how public procurement can be used to speed their adoption. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that £30 million would be set aside to create the Institute for Web Science. It will be headed by Sir Tim Berners Lee, the British inventor of the World Wide Web, and leading Web Science expert Professor Nigel Shadbolt.
The full announcement is at: http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/detail.aspx?NewsAreaId=2&ReleaseID=412457&SubjectId=15&DepartmentMode=true Here is a BBC video clip of Gordon Brown explaining to TGBP ("the Great British Public") how important the Semantic Web is and announcing the grant: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8579666.stm Cheers Brian -- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell () ncl ac uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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