British telco BT is to sponsor a new organisation founded by 'father of the Web' Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) aims to establish Web Science as a new academic discipline focusing on the analysis, engineering and social impact of the World Wide Web.
WSRI aims to attract young people worldwide to study the economics, psychology, technology and sociology of the Web and to bring the study of ‘Web Science’ into mainstream education. The initiative, which is jointly hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Southampton University, will bring together leading experts in the world of computer science and communications to create the curriculum for a new generation of Web scientists.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and Professor at both MIT and Southampton universities said: 'An important role for our founding sponsors will be to help us develop new Web Science curricula to ensure that we are training future generations of web scientists to meet the needs of industry.' X |