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Tim Berners-Lee's speech before the Knight Foundation is available here.

Washington, D.C. (USA) 15 September 2008

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, unveiled today the World Wide Web Foundation, to fulfill a vision of the Web as humanity connected by technology. The mission of the Foundation is:

The Web Science Research Initiative have announced WebSci09, the first 'Web Science' conference to be organised by the WSRI. Web Science focuses on understanding, designing and developing the technologies and applications that make up the World Wide Web. But the Web does not exist without the participation of people and organisations. Now that a significant proportion of life is spent on-line in many countries, it makes sense for this conference to be dedicated to the presentation of research into society on the Web.

Monday, 7 July 2008

Original source, 7th July 2008

The National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) has announced a partnership with the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) which will see the two organisations work together to safeguard the Web as a platform for collaboration and innovation.

A Southampton professor has been elected president of the world's largest educational and scientific computing society - the first time in 60 years a person outside North America has held the position.

Professor Wendy Hall was announced as the new President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).