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WWW2010 Conference coming to the Triangle
Call for papers issued
Oct. 2, 2009 - WWW2010, the 19th International World Wide Web conference is
coming April 26-30, 2010, at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, N.C.
The Organizing Committee welcomes the participation of researchers from around the world to submit original and pioneering research related to the Web for presentation and discussion next April in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Since its inception in 1994, the WWW Conference series has evolved into the longest-standing annual meeting on the topic of the future direction of the World Wide Web. The conference is a premier global forum for productive debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture.
The conference brings together researchers, developers, users and commercial ventures—indeed all those who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer. Please see the Call for Papers for details and deadlines.
Paul Jones, director of ibiblio and clinical associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is co-chair of the conference along with Michael Rappa, founder and director of the Institute for Advanced Analytics and Distinguished University
Professor at North Carolina State University.
Jones said the primary goal of the conference is to bring together the best in revolutionary research that will be realized on the World Wide Web.
"The WWW Conferences have always been the place where ground-breaking advances in the technologies that advance the Web have been presented and announced," said Jones. "The research paper that introduced Google
was first presented at the 1998 WWW conference and is one that changed the way we all use search for example. We expect that strong multi-disciplinary and impactful tradition to continue at the 19th WWW Conference."
Some of the confirmed speakers for the conference are Vint Cerf, vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google and danah boyd, noted researcher on teenagers' use of social networks. boyd is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and also works with Microsoft Research New England. Program tracks include data mining, social networks, industrial practice and experience, Internet monetization, Web 2.0, Web engineering, and XML and Web data. Conference attendees include a mix of academic, business and government computer researchers, developers and users from over 40 countries. It will have an academic focus, centering on standards and technology. WWW2010 will focus on "open Web technologies, standards and practices and will showcase the best of the region's technology and culture."
The World Wide Web conference began in 1994 and was organized by Robert Cailliau, who worked with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web. It was held at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. Since then, it has become an annual event, held in locations all over the world such as Paris, Amsterdam and New York. Last year the conference was held in Madrid, Spain where 105 peer-reviewed papers were presented.
The conference, which is expected to have 1,000 attendees, is also going green this year. Local organizers are developing innovative ecological alternatives to unnecessary and unwanted conference waste--from water bottles to the pens, bags, and keychains normally given to attendees.
Two other conferences will be held concurrently at the Raleigh Convention Center; the W4A conference on Web accessibility and the second annual Web
Science conference which focuses on the intersection of the social and technological aspects of the Web.
Six departments from UNC at Chapel Hill (including the School of Information and Library Science, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Department of Computer Science, and the Gillings School of Global Public Health) and the UNC Office of the Provost are contributing to the underwriting of the conference in collaboration with North Carolina State University's Insititute for Advanced Analytics, the organization submitting the successful bid to host the conference in the Research Triangle.
The early registration deadline is February 1st, 2010.
To submit a paper for the conference, or for more details about the conference, please go to the Web site at: http://www2010.org/