Departmental News

In the third week of January 2022, TWC Co-Chair, Dr. Deborah McGuinness, joined numerous IBM experts and other academic AI experts as a speaker during the two-day IBM Neuro-Symbolic AI Workshop 2022. The workshop addressed recent progress toward some of the most outstanding issues in today’s AI and enabled attendees to reflect on the best path for further advances. Dr.

Tetherless World Constellation (TWC) is the co-host and gold sponsor of the 20th International Semantic Web Conference, the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph Community.  The event, which took place 24 - 28 October 2021, included a combination of keynote presentations from renowned experts, poster sessions, demos, lightning talks, tutorials, workshops and more.  TWC co-chairs Jim Hendler and Deborah McGuinness served as panelists in a session titled “Semantic Web Vision and Revision,” alongside Tim B

James Hendler, the Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web, and Cognitive Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named chair of the Technology Policy Council for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Congratulations to the undergraduate team of Alex Mankowski, Sarah McRae, and Brian Maher, and their mentor John Erickson for winning the "Best Poster" award at WebSci'19 for their poster, Twitter Time Machine: A Multidimensional Immersive Exploration Environment for the TwitterSphere.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tetherless World Professor of Computer Science Deborah McGuinness has received a three-year, $1.77 million award to develop digital knowledge infrastructure as part of the Dynamic Spectrum Access Policy Development project, initiated as part of a reallocation of sections of the federally controlled radio frequency spectrum.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host the ninth International Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Web Science conference from June 26 to June 28, with tutorials and workshops hosted on June 25, with support from the Rensselaer Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA) and the Rensselaer Tetherless World Constellation.

IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the creation of the new Center for Health Empowerment by Analytics, Learning, and Semantics (HEALS). 

We can look at the World Wide Web from the perspective of mathematics through network science, or the perspective of infrastructure through computer science; but to truly understand the interactions between technology and society found on the web, we need web science.