Podcasts about Web science

How do we live with technology in our digital age which is fast becoming an AI and Quantum age?   There are those who understand, design and deliver tech' and those who specialise in understanding people –between these two groups is a huge gap. Anni Rowland-Campbell has been trying to address this gap for over 25 years, by bringing people together from all walks of life to have ‘Brave Conversations' about what's happening in their world, and how technology impacts on them. Anni shares her experiences in this podcast and also her concern that we are just not taking technological change seriously enough or quickly enough.    Simon and Anni discuss regulation, which is mainly coming from the EU, but perhaps more importantly needs to come via ourselves, through self-regulation and community actions that help us regulate and have more choice over how we use tech. Technology can be exciting, amazingly useful and also have many unforeseen consequences. Anni's work is to try and harness the best humanity has to use tech well in order that we live well too.  Enjoy this thought-provoking podcast, and ask yourself: “What am I doing to take more control and to live more healthily with others, in this technologically pervasive world”.  Bio  Anni Rowland-Campbell is a philanthropist and Web Science practitioner. She is Director of Intersticia a global charity and social enterprise which focuses on helping to develop emerging stewards for the 21st Century.  For the past two decades, Anni has worked with Boards, Senior Leadership and Management Teams to help them become more "Digitally Savvy” as they increasingly operate online.   In 2017 she created Brave Conversations as a way to bring the conversations of the Social Machine to the general public of all ages, stages and from all walks of life.  Since then Brave Conversations has been held all around the world both face-to-face and online.  Anni has worked in the Arts, Government and the Corporate sectors and has also led a number of research projects with the Web Science Institute investigating the topic of "Government as a Social Machine”.  Anni is President of the Digital Enlightenment Foundation, a Trustee of the Web Science Trust, a Non-Executive Director of Founders and Coders UK, the Social Change Agency and a Fellow of Goodenough College, London.  She is also a member of the Advisory Boards of MENA Alliances.

Terhi is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary experimentation into ways digital technologies can support and diversify research in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and in relation to public culture (including Web Science, and the cultural heritage sector). Her book "Linked Data for the Digital Humanities" is currently under review with Routledge. She's currently working on Liberal Sydney, a project that investigates the development of liberalism as a movement in Australian politics. She will be taking up the Gale Asia-Pacific Digital Humanities Oxford Fellowship at the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, UK in early 2023. This episode is brought to you by N2N's Illuminate App, The iPaaS for Higher Education. Learn more at https://illuminateapp.com/web/higher-education/Subscribe and listen to more episodes at IlluminateHigherEducation.comContact Dr. Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/terhinurmikkofullerDr. Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tmtn.f/Learn more about The Australian National University: https://www.anu.edu.au       

Our guest for this episode is Deborah McGuinness, Professor of Computer, Cognitive, and Web Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Deborah specializes in creating ontology-enabled research infrastructure for work in interdisciplinary settings. In this episode, Deborah explains how we can use ontologies to create programs that help us make the best decisions, from pairing wine and food to choosing to start a new medication. She shares her excitement about the potential intersections between health science and web science, detailing ways that medical professionals and web scientists can work together to elevate how we provide medical care. Click here for this episode's transcript, and here for this episode's show notes.

In this special 25th episode of Untangling the Web, we talk with one of the founders of web science, Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt. He's Principal of Jesus college and professorial Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Oxford. As information adviser to the United Kingdom government, he encouraged the release of many 1000s of public sector data sets. He was knighted in 2013 for services to science and engineering. During this episode, Nigel recounts some of those founding conversations and intentions surrounding the creation of the web science field, as well as some of his more recent work. Nigel, who was on the forefront of the Semantic Web, also explains exactly what that means -- and what the web might look like today if it had expanded. To hear to this and more, listen to this episode. Click here for this episode's transcript and here for this episode's show notes.

In this episode, we talk with Richard Rogers, a professor and chair of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. An award-winning author, he also is Director of the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), known for the development of software tools for the study of online data. He's interested in web epistemology -- and more -- and was co-chair for one of the very first Web Science conferences. In this episode, Richard digs into "digital methods" and what that really means, as well as the software his team has built to conduct research under the DMI. He brings us into some of his newest work, like the book he's working on called Mainstreaming the Fringe: How Misinformation Propagates in Social Media, but he also goes back to what started his path in web science. And he discusses a number of critical projects that has helped shed light on topics including issue drift and issue celebrities. To understand those terms and more, listen to this episode. Click here for this episode's transcript, and here for this episode's show notes.

This week, join us as we welcome our amazing guest, Professor Dame Wendy Hall as she tells all about her incredible work with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web. Dame Wendy shares her remarkable knowledge with the team as they examine the birth of Web Science, delving into the fascinating study of the web from a societal perspective. Also in this episode, Sue and Gordon talk about the profound impact of web science across areas which shape and influence so many areas of our life including its effect on social media and artificial intelligence. You can email your suggestions for moments for Sue and Gordon to look at using 100moments@durham.ac.uk For those interested in studying Computer Science at Durham, visit https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/computer-science/ to find out how you can apply. If you enjoyed this episode please do three lovely things for us - like, subscribe and tell a friend! 100 Moments that Rocked Computer Science is a Why did the Chicken? production for Durham University.

For this episode, we talk with Emilio Ferrara, an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He's also a Research Team Leader for AI at USC's Information Sciences Institute and the Director of the Annenberg Networks Network, ANN for short. Earlier this year, Emilio became the Chair of the Web Science Trust Network of Laboratories (WSTNet for short). In this episode, Emilio discusses his vision for the next generation of Web Science, especially in light of his newly appointed chair position. And he also talks about some of his research into how bots and social media can manipulate conversations around vaccines and public health. He has a particular perspective on this area -- much before COVID-19, he was involved in a DARPA challenge surrounding bots engaged in vaccination debate. Then, in January 2020, right as the pandemic was coming on the horizon, Emilio's lab jumped on collecting data about bots spreading COVID-19 conspiracies. For insights into this and more, listen to this episode. Click here for this episode's transcript, and click here for this episode's show notes.

As the world wide web evolved over the years from a few pages to search engines, e-commerce sites, wikis, and social media platforms, how has it impacted us, humans? We talk about this in detail with Prof. Srinath Srinivasa, who offers an interesting course called the web and the mind that traces the evolution of the web and how it influences our lives. Prof. Srinath is the Dean of Research and Development at IIIT Bangalore and heads IIITB's Web Science lab which strives to understand the impact of the web on different facets of human life. You can learn more about the lab and his work from the link below: Web Science Lab: http://wsl.iiitb.ac.in/

Rhiannon tells us all about how black pepper became the seasoning that virtually always goes with salt. We discuss the spice from a scientific perspective and talk about why not everyone loves having it around. Rhiannon attempts to play the Wikipedia game for the first time. This podcast is produced and edited by me, Rhiannon. Royalty-free music courtesy of pixabay.com. SOURCE MATERIAL ***Recommendation of the Week*** Drink more water, you dry lil nugget ***Web: Terminology*** https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-an-herb-and-a-spice https://www.etymonline.com/word/pepper https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peppercorn%20rent ***Web: Science*** https://www.foodrepublic.com/2016/01/27/what-are-the-different-kinds-of-peppercorns/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4648884/ http://plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:682369-1 https://www.saltassociation.co.uk/education/salt-health/role-salt-cooking/ https://selectree.calpoly.edu/tree-detail/schinus-molle https://time.com/5503520/black-pepper-health-benefits/ https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/05/17/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-sichuan-peppercorns/ ***Web: History*** https://books.google.com/books?id=QKALAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA272#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.peppermate.com/pages/a-brief-history-of-pepper-mills-grinders ***Web: Popularity*** https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/82971/why-do-we-use-salt-and-pepper-flavor-food https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/would-you-like-some-salt-and-pepper-how-about-80000-shakers-worth-23901227/?story=fullstory https://www.wsj.com/articles/salt-and-pepper-are-no-longer-enough-11570116149 ***Wikipedia (Out)*** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pepper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_treasure_voyages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lytton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Helena_Island_National_Park ***Wikipedia (Back)*** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Helena_Island_National_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_cuisine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pepper

Ravindran (Ravi) Balaraman is our guest for this episode (23 min. long). He is the Mindtree faculty fellow and a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. And he also heads the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at IIT Madras, which is the leading interdisciplinary AI research center in India and India's first lab to join the Web Science Trust Network of laboratories from around the world. His research is pushing the boundaries of reinforcement learning, social network analysis, and data text mining. In this episode, Ravi explains the unique challenges that India faces in web science, including how displaced migrants feeling alienated from the Web. He also explains some solutions, like increasing access to devices with local languages programmed in. And Ravi talks about the importance of AI and how that can help or hurt in pursuits of different social goods, as well as just how explainable AI could get. To hear about all this and more, listen to the full episode! Click here for this episode's transcript, and click here for this episode's show notes.

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In this episode, we talk with Dame Wendy Hall, who was involved with creating the very field of web science. Wendy was a Founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative, is the Managing director of the Web Science Trust, and became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2009. She explains some of her contributions to the field, as well as offers a perspective of how web science is changing under geopolitical forces, the pandemic, and more. Going beyond all this, she also dives into many of the ethical questions and challenges that web science posits. Click here for the transcript and here to access the show notes for this episode.

Many of us regard bugs and insects simply as pests -- to be rid of. Our guests today know that, and hope to change the hearts and minds of the insect-averse. Sarah Stellwagen waxes poetic about the mysteries and science of spider webs. And entomologist Mike Raupp, also known as ‘The Bug Guy,’ is on a mission to help people understand our connection to the creepy crawly critters, starting with the fascinating life cycle of what he claims as his ‘spirit bug’ -- the stupendous cicada.

In this episode, we talk with Jim Hendler, Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US. Since those early days in the mid-2000s, Web Science has witnessed remarkable growth and attracted global attention. Jim points to some of the most significant contributions Web Science has offered society and argues why Web Science is relevant now more than ever …

In this episode, we talk with Susan Halford, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Futures at the University of Bristol in the UK. Susan has been at the forefront of championing a deeper engagement between social scientists and computer scientists in addressing questions confronting Web Science. She explains why this partnership is so important in advancing not only the future of the Web but also the future of society.

What is Web Science, and why does it matter? The internet is the most complex machine built by humans but it so much more than just the engineering behind it. The internet moves the data around, but the web is the space in which we humans have experiences, think of the web as a sort of super app. We're interested in the underlying technology, in that it facilitates the movement of data that makes the web possible. But from the human side, we're interested in our interaction with each other as made possible by the web, so how do we understand it in its totality rather than thinking about it as a collection of websites? Did the inventors of the internet foresee how it could be used now – as a force of good and change but also as a way of spreading hate and misinformation? By studying Web Science could the internet be made better for humanity in the future? Joining us from the WebSci 2020 Conference are: “Father of the Internet” Vint Cerf, Executive Director, Web Science Institute Wendy Hall, Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute in Cambridge Carly Kind and JP Rangaswami former Chief Data Officer and Head of Innovation of Deutsche Bank Chief Scientist at BT. The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary by Bill Thompson. Studio Manager: Duncan Hannant Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz Main image credit: Getty Images

Conversation-Democracy 2025 Podcast on “Political Trust in Times of COVID-19” produced by ContentGroup A week ago, the British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced that the number of people killed by the coronavirus in the United Kingdom stood at 32,313, the second highest death toll in the world. Health experts believe that the real figure is likely to be closer to 50,000. The number of deaths from COVID-19 in Australia currently stand at 103. Critics have accused a “complacent” British government of “massively underestimating” the gravity of the coronavirus crisis. The prominent Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported that the situation in the UK was “like a nightmare from which you cannot awake, but in which you landed because of your own fault or stupidity”. London correspondent Christoph Meyer writes, Britain has emerged as Europe’s “problem child” of the COVID-19 crisis. Although international comparisons of COVID-19 death tolls, are methodologically problematic and morally bankrupt, there can be no doubt that the lived citizen experience of COVID-19 has been dramatically different in the United Kingdom when compared with Australia. Every citizen has a heart-breaking personal story to tell. In contrast, most Australians, have been blessed voyeurs on the pandemic further perpetuating its image as the Lucky Country. In this podcast Mark Evans and Michelle Grattan explore differences in the management, experience and impact of the crisis in the company of three leading British academic thinkers and members of the [Trustgov project](https://trustgov.net) at the University of Southampton. Will Jennings is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southampton. He is an expert on public policy and political behaviour, Principle Investigator on the Trustgov project, Co-Director of the UK Policy Agendas Project, and elections analyst for Sky News. Dr. Jennifer Gaskell joined the TrustGov project as a Research Fellow in July 2019. She holds an interdisciplinary PhD in Web Science from the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on the ways new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) impact civic and political participation. She is also the co-founder of Build Up, a social enterprise working at the intersection of new technologies, civic engagement and peace-building. Gerry Stoker is Professor of Governance at the University of Southampton and Centenary Professor at the University of Canberra. He is an expert on democratic politics and governance, and advisor to governments and international organisations on public sector reform.

Contact: @intersticia Website: http://intersticia.com.au/ Welcome to the latest podcast. Her name is Anni Rowland-Campbell. Now Anni has a ridiculous number of degrees, too many for me to even list, all around the world, ranging from philosophy and science to theatre and business and technology. But she's fundamentally an observer and practitioner of Web Science and a passionate advocate for digital literacy. I think particularly fascinating with the time and the world that we're in, what Anni talks about is analog leadership in a digital world and we're gonna unpack that in our conversation. She's been a massive leader in bringing technology into government and social policy, developing innovation hubs, and pioneering this work at the intersection of creativity and technology. So a really interesting conversation, one particularly as we're starting to ask big questions of ourselves, technology and the way things are developing that I think will give you a lot of food for thought. Enjoy this weeks Coffee Pod. Click here for the Transcript Version See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AI Expert Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt will be asking whether the open data movement has succeeded and what the next steps should be to secure its foundation for our economies and societies We have seen many achievements in open data, by governments and NGOs, large corporates and startups, collectives and individuals. This talk will reflect on and review some of these achievements and look to the future, asking questions like ‘How does open data relate to data that is closed or shared?’ and ‘Does open data help us empower individuals?’ About the speaker Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt is Chairman and Co-Founder of the Open Data Institute. He is also Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Head of the Web and Internet Science Group, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. With over 400 publications he has researched on topics ranging from cognitive psychology to computational neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence to the Semantic Web. He was one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of Web Science and is a Director of the Web Science Trust which seeks to advance our understanding of the Web and promote the Web’s positive impact on society. In 2009 the Prime Minister appointed him and Sir Tim Berners-Lee as Information Advisors to transform access to Public Sector Information. This work led to the highly acclaimed data.gov.uk site that now provides a portal to over 9,000 datasets. In May 2010 he was asked by the UK Coalition Government to join the Public Sector Transparency Board – this oversees Open Data releases across the public sector. In April 2011 he became Chair of the UK Government’s midata programme – whose goal is to empower consumers by releasing their data back to them. In the November 2011 Autumn statement he was awarded £10M funding via the Technology Strategy Board to set up the Open Data Institute with Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

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Web Science untersucht die Bedeutung, Wirkung, Entwicklung und die gesellschaftlichen Dimensionen des Internet und des World Wide Web. Isabella Peters hat eine Professur in dieser Disziplin und erklärt, womit sie sich konkret beschäftigt.

Web Science und ein Problem der Open Science - kurz erklärt von Isabella Peters von der Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft.

Mohamed Morsy is from Egypt. He currently lives in Cologne, Germany where he earned a Master of Science in Web Science and where he intends to open a hostel for travelers. He also writes for his travel blog and project, The Road Mo Traveled. We discuss his travels in South America, life in Cologne, growing up in Cairo, and the Egyptian Revolution. Check out his blog and project at: theroadmotraveled.com

Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, has spent a career at the forefront of developments around the web and digital media. Trained as a mathematician, she moved to the fledgling department of computer science in the mid 1980's, a time of great change and great excitement in the field. She talks to Jim Al Khalili about the rate that things have changed, how the web is still not quite what it should be, and about the new discipline she has helped to found known as Web Science.

Find out more about an innovative prototype system developed as part of an MSc Web Technology project at Electronics and Computer Science. Sara Jeza Alotaibi gives insight into her prototype model, FingerID, developed to provide Internet users with a single and secure access point to online accounts using a biometric recognition system.

The Data Conservancy is one of two initial awards through the National Science Foundatiom's DataNet Program. The Data Conservancy embraces a shared vision: data curation is not an end, but rather a means to collect, organize, validate and preserve data to address grand research challenges. Sayeed Choudhury provides an overview of the Data Conservancy with an emphasis on the data framework aspects of the project. Speaker Biography: Sayeed Choudhury is associate dean for library digital programs at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University.

Find out more about a prototype model developed within the postgraduate Web and Internet Science research group at Electronics and Computer Science. Salma Noor gives insight into her project, of her prototype model ‘Cheri’ that uses social web data of individual interests and preferences to make personalised cultural heritage recommendations.

Filmed seminar from 2009, Dr Ted Nelson presents ideas on hierarchy and electronic documents "…today's electronic documents were explicitly designed according to technical traditions and tekkie mindset. People, not computers, are forcing hierarchy on us, and perhaps other properties you may not want."

Filmed seminar from 2007, and as part of his 70th Birthday celebration, Dr Ted Nelson reflects on his work “…hierarchical and sequential structures, especially popular since Gutenberg, are usually forced and artificial. Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't.”

Filmed seminar from 2008, Dr Ted Nelson presents ideas on alternative structures and new possibilities of hierarchy of data “...rather than hierarchy, I propose that the fundamental issue is representing cross-connection and interpenetration, as required by the cross-connection and interpenetration of human thought and human life. Note that hierarchy, if really needed, can be well represented by cross-connection but not vice versa”.

Recorded in March 2010, Dr Kieron O’Hara presents a lecture on the challenges the web poses to privacy, and the ways in which the web is changing views on privacy.

Recorded in November 2009, Professor Luc Moreau presents a lecture on The Open Provenance vision; of an approach that consists of controlled vocabulary, serialization formats and APIs that allow provenance from individual systems to be expressed, connected in a coherent fashion, and queried seamlessly.

Build it and They Will Come... but Once! This is a serious threat! Your website needs to be updated often to compete on a local level. How do you find the time? What do you do first? Listen to Steve Dahl, Charles Heflin and Thomas Rozof discuss the latest techniques for getting web traffic locally. The biggest threat to your local success is that gray matter between your ears! Don't let stinkin' thinkin' keep you from finding new ways to market your business! Learn more at www.LocalWebScience.com

Build it and They Will Come... but Once! This is a serious threat! Your website needs to be updated often to compete on a local level. How do you find the time? What do you do first? Listen to Steve Dahl, Charles Heflin and Thomas Rozof discuss the latest techniques for getting web traffic locally. The biggest threat to your local success is that gray matter between your ears! Don't let stinkin' thinkin' keep you from finding new ways to market your business! Learn more at www.LocalWebScience.com

In this nuts and bolts Podcast on Market Research, Thomas Rozof and Charles Heflin of Social Media Science discuss the myths and realities of market research for the small local business owner. Market research can be affordable and effective if you know where to begin. Of course, you think know your business from your point of view but what about everyone else’s point of view? One reason you should begin facing new challenges with market research is that sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know! Nobody knows what prospects and customers are thinking or doing by guessing. Yet, that’s what most business owners still do… guess! If you’re ready for a more scientific approach to growing your business, then this Podcast of Local Web Science Today may change how you do business forever. Here are some of the Research Payoffs: • Re-establishing relationships with past customers. • Reactivating dormant customers • Increasing awareness of new or forgotten products and services • Uncovering missed opportunities – right under your nose • Confirming your marketing direction • Identifying pending problems • Giving customers chance to vent • Reinforcing existing sales efforts • Providing feedback for staff that doesn’t interface with customers • Preventing costly mistakes • Identifying market trends early enough to prepare • Giving investors needed feedback In this Podcast, host, Steve Dahl gets these social media marketing experts to reveal SPECIFIC tactics for getting free market research done, SPECIFIC tools to watch and beat the competition and SPECIFIC ways to outwit and out market the competition. Tom Rozof and Charles Heflin are founders of Social Media Science, Local Web Science and Synnd Software. Learn more about them at www.SocialMediaScience.com and www.LocalWebScience.com.

In this nuts and bolts Podcast on Market Research, Thomas Rozof and Charles Heflin of Social Media Science discuss the myths and realities of market research for the small local business owner. Market research can be affordable and effective if you know where to begin. Of course, you think know your business from your point of view but what about everyone else’s point of view? One reason you should begin facing new challenges with market research is that sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know! Nobody knows what prospects and customers are thinking or doing by guessing. Yet, that’s what most business owners still do… guess! If you’re ready for a more scientific approach to growing your business, then this Podcast of Local Web Science Today may change how you do business forever. Here are some of the Research Payoffs: • Re-establishing relationships with past customers. • Reactivating dormant customers • Increasing awareness of new or forgotten products and services • Uncovering missed opportunities – right under your nose • Confirming your marketing direction • Identifying pending problems • Giving customers chance to vent • Reinforcing existing sales efforts • Providing feedback for staff that doesn’t interface with customers • Preventing costly mistakes • Identifying market trends early enough to prepare • Giving investors needed feedback In this Podcast, host, Steve Dahl gets these social media marketing experts to reveal SPECIFIC tactics for getting free market research done, SPECIFIC tools to watch and beat the competition and SPECIFIC ways to outwit and out market the competition. Tom Rozof and Charles Heflin are founders of Social Media Science, Local Web Science and Synnd Software. Learn more about them at www.SocialMediaScience.com and www.LocalWebScience.com.

Prof. Noshir CONTRACTOR, Northwestern University, SONIC, USA. Recent advances in Web Science provide comprehensive digital traces of social actions, interactions, and transactions. These data provide an unprecedented exploratorium to model the socio-technical motivations for creating, maintaining, dissolving, and reconstituting multidimensional social networks. Multidimensional networks include multiple types of nodes (people, documents, datasets, tags, etc.) and multiple types of relationships (co-authorship, citation, web links, etc). Using examples from research in a wide range of activities such as disaster response, public health and massively multiplayer online games (WoW - the World of Warcraft), Contractor will argue that Web Science serves as the foundation for the development of social network theories and methods to help advance our ability to understand and enable multidimensional networks.

Panagiotis "Takis" Metaxas, Professor of Computer Science, explains the origins of the Web and the history of search engines. He sees the Web as a technical construct, a social phenomenon, and a growing organism.

Author and journalist Carl Zimmer talks about the search for the physiological and biological basis of intelligence, the subject of his article in the October issue of Scientific American magazine. And Editor in Chief John Rennie discusses other articles in the issue, including the cover story on the possibility of a big bounce instead of the big bang and the science of the World Wide Web. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.SciAm.com/sciammag; www.carlzimmer.com