News tagged with world wide web
Is the Internet lying to us?
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Alberta scholars talk about the relativity of truth on the World Wide Web.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2010 |
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Analysis of Flickr photos could lead to online travel books
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists have downloaded and analyzed nearly 35 million Flickr photos taken by more than 300,000 photographers from around the globe, using a supercomputer at the Cornell Center ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Web founder fears 'snooping' on the Internet
Tim Berners-Lee, one of the founders of the World Wide Web, said Friday that he was concerned about the emergence of user profiling on the Internet and "snooping."
Mar 13, 2009 |
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The search -- computers dig deeper for meaning (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Search engine technology is in a state of flux as it digs ever deeper for new meaning. Europe is poised to reap the benefits of the new age of semantic search thanks to the work of European researchers.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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www@20: How the techies tamed the cyber zoo
Huddled around a vintage computer, four of the creators of the world wide web were blissfully unaware of the audience as they demonstrated how, some 20 years ago, they spawned the exponential growth of the ...
Mar 17, 2009 |
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German researchers break W3C XML encryption standard
Standards are supposed to guarantee security, especially in the WWW. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main force behind standards like HTML, XML, and XML Encryption. But implementing a W3C standard does not mean ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Web inventor warns UK on surveillance plans
(AP) -- The scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web says he's warned Britain's government to ditch plans to extend surveillance of Internet activity.
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Web experts ask scientists to use the Web to improve understanding, sharing of their data in science
Peter Fox and James Hendler of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are calling for scientists to take a few tips from the users of the World Wide Web when presenting their data to the public and other scientists in the Feb. ...
Feb 12, 2011 |
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Web search needs a shake-up
A University of Washington computer scientist is calling on the international academic community and engineers working in industry to take a bolder approach when designing how people find information online.
Aug 03, 2011 |
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www.20yearsold -- World Wide Web feels its growing pains
The World Wide Web (WWW) on Friday marked its 20th anniversary and its founders admitted there were bits of the phenomenon they do not like: advertising and "snooping."
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Sensoring the World Wide Web
CSIRO scientists will lead an international initiative to develop standards for sharing information collected by sensors and sensor networks over the Internet.
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Too much YouTube? Lock it up
We all love to waste time at work checking out a YouTube video or updating our Facebook profiles, but if you can't control yourself, there's keepmeout.com, a free service that lets you set limits on your Web browsing.
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Web inventor to lead British research institute
(AP) -- Britain's prime minister says the scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web will lead a new Internet research institute.
Mar 22, 2010 |
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World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, the World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by the English physicist Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and later assisted by Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist, while both were working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed building a "web of nodes" storing "hypertext pages" viewed by "browsers" on a network, and released that web in December.
Connected by the existing Internet, other websites were created, around the world, adding international standards for domain names and the HTML language. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of Web standards (such as the markup languages in which Web pages are composed), and in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic Web. The World Wide Web enabled the spread of information over the Internet through an easy-to-use and flexible format. It thus played an important role in popularizing use of the Internet. Although the two terms are sometimes conflated in popular use, World Wide Web is not synonymous with Internet. The Web is an application built on top of the Internet.
For more information about World Wide Web, read the full article at
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