Web Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Web
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James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, 
Wendy Hall, 
Tim Berners-Lee, Daniel J. WeitznerAuthors Info & Claims
James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Tim Berners-Lee, Daniel J. WeitznerAuthors Info & ClaimsJuly 2023
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Biographies
James Hendler ([email protected]) is the Tetherless World Chair of Computer and Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Nigel Shadbolt ([email protected]) is professor of artificial intelligence and deputy head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University, Southampton, U.K.
Wendy Hall ([email protected]) is a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.
Tim Berners-Lee ([email protected]) is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and holds the 3Com Founders chair and is a senior research scientist in the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Daniel Weitzner ([email protected]) is director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Decentralized Information Group and principle research scientist in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA.
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