RPI Exploring Frontiers of Web: School Launches New Research Facility With Mission to Study, Understand Full Potential

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Title	RPI Exploring Frontiers of Web: School Launches New Research Facility With Mission to Study, Understand Full Potential
Author	Chris Churchill
Source	Times Union
Source URL	http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=695516&category=BUSINESS&BCCode=&newsdate=6/12/2008
Date	2008/06/12
Location	Troy, NY
Topic	Semantic Web
About	Tim Berners-Lee, James A. Hendler

Jun. 12--TROY -- Divide, for a moment, World Wide Web users into three categories.

The first would include people who use the Web for work or entertainment, maybe to communicate on MySpace, conduct research with Wikipedia or watch goofy videos on sites like YouTube.

If you're reading this story online, you're probably part of this group.

The second category would include folks who think seriously about the Web, who ponder issues like net neutrality, understand the complex engineering that makes the Web possible, and consider the social ramifications of Internet use.

Those people are likely thrilled that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy has launched a "Web science" center called the Tetherless World Research Constellation...(Complete Story)