Nation's First Web Science Degree (April 2010)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has launched the nation’s first undergraduate degree program devoted to the emerging interdisciplinary field of Web Science. The new academic major expands the current Information Technology degree program to create both a bachelor's degree, and a master's concentration, in "Information Technology and Web Science." |
Web 3.0: The Dawn of Semantic Search (January 2010)
One of the difficulties in explaining Web 3.0 is that, unlike the original Web browser or later Web 2.0 systems, Semantic Web technology tends to be an infrastructure technology. While Web companies are working to produce new and scalable tools, academic researchers are pushing the size and speed of Semantic Web back-end operations. |
Landing a Job of the Future Takes a Two-Track Mind (December 2009)
Career Experts Say Positions in Growing Fields Will Require an In-Demand Degree Coupled With
Skills in Emerging Trends |
Web Science Emerges (October 2008)
Studying the Web will reveal better ways to exploit information, prevent identity theft, revolutionize industry and manage our ever growing online lives. |
A Techie, Absolutely, And More; Computer Majors Adding Other Skills to Land Jobs (from The New York Times)
Jamika Burge is heading back to Virginia Tech this fall to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science, but her research is spiced with anthropology, sociology, psychology, psycholinguistics — as well as observing cranky couples trade barbs in computer instant messages. |
