Many people provided support and encouragement to both WST and WSRI before it and we are enternally greatful to everyone who helped us along the way to create a science of the Web. There are too many to mention all of them but here are a few to whom we’d like to offer a special mention.

WSRI Fellows
Harith Alani, Leslie Carr, Richard Cyganiak, Hugh Glaser,
Jennifer Golbeck, Lalana Kagal, Deborah McGuinness,
Kieron O’Hara, mc schraefel and Mark Weal.

Scientific Council
Harold (Hal) Abelson, Albert-László Barabasi, Manuel Castells, David Clark, Dave Cliff, David De Roure, Stefan Decker, Joan Feigenbaum, Dame Janet Finch, Carole Goble, Pat Hayes,Toru Ishida, Nick Jennings, David Karger, Thomas Malone, Vladimiro Sassone, Guus Schreiber, Ben Schneiderman, Gerry Sussman, Fei-Yue Wang, Yorick Wilks, Jonathan Zittrain.

WST Advocates, Friends & Supporters
Thanassis Tiropanis, Joanna Lewis, Ramine Tinati, Xin Wang, Craig Gallen, Chris Gutteridge.