Tim Berners-Lee: "The Future of the Web"
19.09.2007
The development of Web technology has been an exciting ride, a series of socially motivated technical innovations some languishing, others catching on in a viral way. As each development has suggested many new ones, and much of the original vision is still unfulfilled, there is a lot to do. This talk will discuss new challenges and hopes for weblike systems on the net.
About the speaker
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Senior Researcher at MIT's CSAIL, and Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS.
About this speech (March 14, 2006)
This is an event of the e-Horizons Institute, organized by the Institute in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, the Oxford e-Research Centre and the School of Electronics and Computer Science of the University of Southhampton.
Short summary
- Itīs an absolute must to watch the inventor of the internet when he is talking about "his baby".
- This speech gives an overview of whatīs going on at W3C, the Semantic Web - Community and in TimBlīs mind.
- Heīs talking about gaps: Gaps between technical and social rules, and why some people have stopped using email.
- And we also learn that itīs the life sciences which act as an incubator to show eventually why the Semantic Web will be the next generation internet...