Northwestern Engineering’s Noshir Contractor has been named executive director of the Web Science Trust (WST), effective May 1, 2024. Contractor has served for the past 13 years as a director and ...

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee had the sci-fi inspired name in mind, according to fellow innovator Wendy Hall, who spoke to CNET about the evolution of the World Wide Web. Aloysius Low is a Senior ...

The social interactions that glue the World Wide Web together are now so complex it has outgrown the relatively narrow field of computer science, say pioneering internet researchers. “You can’t tell ...

The Internet has hit a milestone in its evolution by being endowed with its own field of study, reports the New York Times. It's dubbed "web science" by Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web's basic ...