Tsinghua CS short course Y0240261: Web Science (Fall 2010)

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清华计算机科学与技术系海外学者短期讲学课程

课程名称: 万维网科学（Web Science）
授课教师：丁力（Research Scientist of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute）
助教：马远超
课程编号：Y0240261
授课语言：英文（English）
授课时间：11月1日～11月5日 （每天晚上19:30-21:45, 周五14:20-16:45）
授课地点：东主楼10-103
授课对象：全校相关专业研究生和高年级本科生
拟听课人数：40人
学分数：1学分
课时数：18课时
考核方式：考查(Oral presentation)

Abstract

万维网(World Wide Web)的发展对整个社会带来了巨大的影响。为了更好地推动万维网理论与应用的发展，我们需要深入研究信息在万维网中的产生、组织、传播以及消费的限制条件与演化规律。作为一门新兴的交叉学科，万维网科学以万维网技术及信息共享为核心，全方位地整合了包括计算机科学、社会学、心理学、经济学、数学、法律、传媒等领域的相关研究。本课程旨在介绍万维网科学的核心技术以及前沿研究课题，包括万维网科学概述、基于万维网的信息管理、万维网与社会网络、以及万维网上的语义知识表示。

Since its inception the World Wide Web has changed the ways people work, play, communicate, collaborate, and educate. There is, however, a growing realization among researchers across a number of disciplines (such as Computer Science, Sociology, Psychology, Economy, Mathematics, Law and Media) that without fundamental understanding of the current, evolving and potential Web, we may be missing or delaying opportunities for new and revolutionary capabilities. This course attempts to provide the foundations of that understanding, exploring the fundamentals topics of Web Science, including a historical review of the evolution of the Web, key algorithms that make the Web function, popular Web-based information management systems, social issues with respect to Web use and effect, enabling standards and technologies for Web-based knowledge representation and data integration, and advance topics on future trends of the Web.

Bio of the Instructor

Li Ding is a research scientist in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). As an early adopter of the Semantic Web, his research interest covers many practical aspects of the Semantic Web, such as semantic search, user interaction, web-scale computing, ontology, provenance, privacy and trust, information integration and social computing. He is also known as the founder of Swoogle, one of the first semantic web search engine on the Web. He is an active researcher in Semantic Web community and has served as organizer and program committee member for major conferences such as WWW, ISWC, CIKM, AAMAS, and many other international workshops. He is a former Kodak postdoctoral fellow in the Knowledge Systems, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (KSL) at Stanford University. He received Ph.D. in computer science from University of Maryland Baltimore County. Prior to that, he received B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Peking University.

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~dingl