I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It. I wanted the web to serve humanity. It’s not too late to live up to that promise. My parents were mathematicians. My mother helped co... Read more
Twenty-seven years ago, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a way for scientists to easily find information. It has since become the world’s most powerful medium for knowledge, com... Read more
A team of American and Australian researchers claim they have created algorithms that enable robots to learn operational skills by watching human activities. They “taught” their... Read more
In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a 33-year-old software engineer at CERN, Europe’s largest Physics Laboratory, was frustrated with how the internet would only enable sharing of informat... Read more
Researchers have created a tool to monitor the accessibility of Web pages around the world that can be installed by adding a single line of code to a web page. The tool, Encore, runs when a... Read more
“The new program needs no human supervision, and thus can automatically learn the visual knowledge for any concept,” In today’s digitally driven world, access to information appears li... Read more
Twenty-five years ago today, I filed the proposal for what was to become the World Wide Web. My boss dubbed it ‘vague but exciting’. Luckily, he thought enough of the idea to allow me to qui... Read more
A world wide web for robots to learn from each other and share information is being shown off for the first time. Scientists behind RoboEarth will put it through its paces at Eindhoven Unive... Read more
The hidden dimensions of the world wide web are brought to life in stunning artworks by a Newcastle University academic. Dr Martyn Dade Robertson creates the Data Portraits by mapping websit... Read more
Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that the democratic nature of the net is threatened by a “growing tide of surveillance and censorship”. The warning came as he launched... Read more
NEIL program labels images, learns associations with minimal help from people A computer program called the Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) is running 24 hours a day at Carnegie Mellon Uni... Read more
Systems that allow users complete anonymity are being abused. Iowa State’s Yong Guan wants to add some accountability. The World Wide Web is, in many ways, still the Wild West. Though... Read more
With more and more technology to help us work together, it turns out that a better solution for a future workplace might already exist–we just have to use our tech to get us there. The... Read more
Researchers combine powerful new Web standards with the intuitive, graphical MIT App Inventor to aid relief workers with little programming expertise. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science a... Read more
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a way for search engines to provide users with more accurate, personalized search results. The challenge in the past has been how t... Read more
