Category: Events’ Coverage

Author: Ellena Parsons Today’s WSI Distinguished Lecture was delivered by Professor Phil Howard of the Oxford Internet Institute, based at the University of Oxford. The overarching theme of Prof. Howards lecture was the notion of Artificial Intelligence having an influence – whether positive or negative – on politics, and the[…]

Author: Ian Coombs Dr Matthew West has spent the majority of his working life at the petrochemical giant Royal Dutch Shell.  From the early 1990s onwards he was involved in developing company standards and guidelines to support the integration of systems and processes to facilitate different parts of the multinational[…]

Author: Ellena Parsons Today’s WSI Distinguished lecture with Professor Richard Rogers focuses on the pervasive view of social media being a tool from which to gleam ‘vanity metrics’, and how these metrics may be reworked for social research purposes. The lecture was split between these two aspects, with a detailed[…]

Author: Justyna Jonak On the 7th of March 2019, students, academics, alumni gathered together to mark the end of Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) in Web Science and discuss the future of Web Science. By listening to the speeches provided by alumni, we were able to learn, not only how important it[…]

Author: Justyna Jonak On the 29th of November 2018, as a DigiChamp I was invited to cover the University of Southampton’s Digital Day, hosted by the Public Policy Unit at Southampton. There were around 20 participants from the Government Digital Service, the Department for Business, Enterprise & Industrial Strategy, and the[…]

Exaugural lecture delivered by Professor Susan Halford, 11 February 2019 Author: Ian Coombs In a room that was too small for the purpose, because there was standing room only for the academic colleagues, past and current students who came together for Susan Halford’s ex-augural lecture.  Susan has left Southampton to be[…]

Author: Sofia Kitromili On Friday the 26th of October the Web Science Institute had the pleasure of welcoming Liam Maxwell, National Technology Adviser for the UK government for a lecture and discussion on technological possibilities. Liam initiated the discussion by pointing at the students in the audience stating that the research[…]

Author: Sofia Kitromili On Tuesday the 11th of September the US Managing Partner of Innomine Group, George Tilesch, visited the Web Science Institute to give a seminar on Artificial Inteligence revolution. The discussion started with an introduction to his work and what he will discuss in the seminar. Those included the sense[…]