A personal story behind the evolution of the Web
A TED talk by Professor Dame Wendy Hall (14 minutes) in which she charts her journey from school girl to the present day.
Articles about Formats Link
SPARQL-to-SQL on Internet of Things Databases and Streams
A paper by Eugene Siow, Thanassis Tiropanis and Wendy Hall describing an optimisation to a data storage and query technique which more than doubles performance.
Interoperable and Efficient: Linked Data for the Internet of Things
A paper by Eugene Siow, Thanassis Tiropanis and Wendy Hall proposing new approaches to storing data and performing queries, which can improve performance of Linked Data stores by several orders of magnitude.
Q&A with Nigel Shadbolt
A question and answer session with Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt in the New Statesman on the role of technology in a post-Brexit world.
Modeling Twitter Acceptance and Use under the Risk of Antisocial Behavior
A research paper by Nora AlMuhanna, Wendy Hall and David Millard discussing antisocial behaviour on the Internet. The authors propose a model for studying antisocial behaviour on Twitter and validate the model using interviews with experts in the field.
Shadbolt review: Computer science degree accreditation and graduate employability
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt has led an independent review commissioned by the UK government to examine the supply of and demand for Computer Science graduates and the issue of degree accreditation.
The review makes a number of recommendations, including increasing the opportunities for Computer Sciences students to gain work experience, improving the data on graduates and employers, carrying out research to better understand the requirements of employers and improving graduates’ soft skills.
The Quantified Patient in the Doctor’s Office: Challenges and Opportunities
A paper by Peter West, Richard Giordano, Max Van Kleek and Nigel Shadbolt describing research into the use of patient self-logged data in medical diagnosis and care planning. The study involved role-play exercises with doctors, which revealed many opportunities for using self-logged data in diagnosing and treating patients.
Because Science is Awesome: Studying Participation in a Citizen Science Game
A paper by Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Roesch, Elena Simperl and Wendy Hall describing research into people’s motivations for participating in citizen science projects.
The research indicated a number of motivations, including interest in the subject, the desire to learn, the feeling of contributing to the project, belonging to a community and achievement.
The World Wide Web
A paper by Paul Smart and Nigel Shadbolt on the World Wide Web from an epistemological viewpoint. The authors discuss personalised searches, Social Machines, networks and trust/reliability.
A Universal Socio-technical Computing Machine
A paper by Markus Luczak-Roesch, Ramine Tinati, Saud Aljaloud, Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt on a design for a socio-technical
computing machine that allows collective problem solving activities to emerge naturally, without the need for initial problem structuring work or task definition.