Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt are involved in building Web Science Research Institute to promote study of Web Science. This institute is brain child of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the developer of basic concepts behind WWW and now championing Semantic Web.…
Beijing
I arrived in Beijing for WWW 2008. I will give a talk at a workshop and participate on a panel. That begins tomorrow. I arrived yesterday evening — local time, 15 hours ahead of USA, so it is Monday morning…
Subtitles to teach reading
Ish Rishabh sent me a very interesting article by Gurcharan Das. Ish writes that I never knew that subtitling the song might help people learn how to read. In fact, I used to find subtitling irritating. So it was interesting…
CHI Conference
CHI has developed in directions similar to, but not the same, SigGRPH. There are lots of people, many different types of papers, demos, posters, etc. One really well executed concept here is CHI Madness. At the beginning of the day…
In Florence
Florence, Italy is one of the most famous tourist attractions in the world — and I am here for a few days to attend CHI 2008 (Computer Human Interaction). Since I had a few hours on Sunday before I get…