The Web Science initiative at Georgia Tech seeks to understand the impact of the Internet, and help us invent its future. Web technologies are playing an increasingly central role in business, education, entertainment, health, and research. Understanding these phenomena and engineering their future requires a new interdisciplinarity. We aim to strengthen ties among disciplines across campus, explore possible new interdisciplinary educational programs, and build stronger ties between Georgia Tech and the web industry.
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Summer Updates
July 10, 2008Welcome! Earlier this summer, we officially launched the Web Science @ Georgia Tech website. We are also pleased to announce that Yahoo! is sponsoring the Invited Lecture Series for the upcoming academic year. The lectures and Web Science teas will resume in the fall.
Web Science Professor Discusses Preteen Identity on the Web
May 12, 2008As interactive websites for children proliferate, more and more kids and "tweens" are developing alter egos to explore life in cyberworld. “Get used to it,” said School of Interactive Computing professor Amy Bruckman, who studies how children interact with computers. “Identity formation is a key part of what kids go through, and these sites offer that opportunity.” Source: The New York Times.
Georgia Tech Graduate Student Wins Best Paper Award at PODS 2008
May 12, 2008Georgia Tech graduate student Atish Das Parma won the Best Paper Award at the ACM Annual Symposium of Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2008) for his paper, titled Estimating PageRank on Graph Streams.