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PrintComputer science expert to discuss future of the Web
| Event: | Dame Wendy Hall, computer science professor at the University of Southampton in England, will address "What's Next for the Web?" in a lecture sponsored by UC Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences. Hall recently was knighted for her service to science and technology and in May was elected a fellow of The Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. |
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| Date: | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| Time: | 4-5 p.m. |
| Location: | California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology auditorium (bldg. 325, grid H8 on campus map: http://today.uci.edu/pdf/ UCI_09_map_campus_core.pdf) |
| Supplemental Information: | Free and open to the public. Media planning to attend should contact Jennifer Fitzenberger at 949-824-3969 or jfitzen@uci.edu. Parking - free for reporters who RSVP and $7 for members of the public - is available in the Anteater Parking Structure, at Anteater and East Peltason drives. For more information, contact Aileen Broccardo at 949-824-8276 or aileen@ics.uci.edu. |
| Background: | In the past 15 years, the Web has become the main system for sharing information on the Internet. Web applications are changing the way we get news, build social networks and elect government officials. As the Web continues to change, what's next? How will future uses of the Web affect our lives? Can we take the Web for granted, or might it someday disappear? Hall's talk will cover these questions. Hall, whose research merges life and physical sciences, has contributed greatly to the understanding of how people work with the Web. She is founding co-director of the Web Science Research Initiative (http://webscience.org/) and has published more than 400 papers on topics such as multimedia, digital libraries and Web technologies. |
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