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Das Wissenschafterinnenkolleg Internettechnologien (WIT) lädt gemeinsam mit
der Fakultaet fuer Informatik der TU Wien und der Oesterreichischen Computer
Gesellschaft zu folgendem Gastvortrag ein :
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Prof. Wendy Hall
University of Southampton
President of the British Computer Society

Datum: Donnerstag, 22. Jaenner 2004
Uhrzeit: 17:00 bis 18:00+
Ort: TU Wien, Favoritenstrasse 9-11, 1040 Wien, Heinz Zemanek Hoersaal,
Erdgeschoss
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TITEL: Hypermedia & the Web - Missing Links
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ABSTRACT:
Long before the Web existed hypertext visionaries and researchers foresaw a
richly inter-linked world that allowed authors and readers alike to move
easily between related items of information in a global network. The Web
provided the infrastructure to enable those ideas to become reality but in
some ways is far more limited than many of its antecedents. Links, the
fundamental building blocks of any hypertext system, are still difficult to
author and maintain. Associative, personalised links, which formed the basis
of Vannevar Bush's off-cited article "As We May Think", are largely missing
from both the theory and the practice of building Web sites, and it is left
to search engines to fill the gaps. However, the development of the Semantic
Web promises to provide a much richer environment for exploring these ideas.
This talk will consider the missing links in today's Web environments and
look forward to a richly linked future as the Semantic Web evolves.

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KURZBIOGRAPHIE:
Wendy Hall is Professor of Computer Science at the University of
Southampton, UK and currently Head of the School of Electronics and Computer
Science (ECS). She was the founding Head of the Intelligence, Agents,
Multimedia (IAM) Research Group in ECS. She is the co-author of the book
"Hypermedia and the Web: an Engineering Approach" (Wiley, 1999) and has
published over 300 papers in areas such as hypermedia, multimedia, digital
libraries, multi-agent systems and knowledge technologies. She is currently
President of the British Computer Society, a member of IW3C2, a member of
the executive committee of UKCRC and a non-executive director of several
companies and charitable trusts. She was awarded a CBE in 2000, and is a
Fellow of the BCS, the IEE, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the City
and Guilds of London Institute.
A longer biography is available at
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~wh/
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KONTAKTPERSON AN DER TU WIEN:  Prof. Dr. Gerti Kappel
                               gerti@big.tuwien.ac.at, Tel. 58801-18870
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SPONSORING
Die Finanzierung dieser Veranstaltung erfolgt durch freundliche
Unterstützung der Erste Bank, sowie durch
das Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme und die TU Wien
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ANMELDUNG
Wir bitten um Anmeldung unter http://wit.tuwien.ac.at/events.
Hinweis:
Im Anschluss an den Vortrag gibt es beim Buffet die Gelegenheit zum
informellen Meinungsaustausch.
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Der Fachbereich Informatik erhält Sponsorgelder u.a. von
- Siemens AG Österreich
- Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf
- Sun Microsystems
- Caramba Labs Software AG
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