Closing Conversation: Security
The third in a weekly series of dialogues between Professor Dame Wendy Hall & Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt (leading academics in Web Science from the University of Southampton).
Course: Web Science: How the Web Is Changing the World
Humanising the Cyber Criminal
Hackers and Cyber-criminals are ever-present in the media, the ‘folk devils’ (see the definition in the ‘Glossary of criminological terminology’ PDF available at the bottom of this page) of recent …
What next for Web Science?
The Web we have now would have astonished Web users from 10 years ago; how will we be astonished in 10 years’ time? Leading academics Professor Dame Wendy Hall and …
The future of gadgets online: the Internet of Things
The ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) is an idea about what happens when you embed communications and intelligence into household appliances, white goods, street furniture, clothing, medical devices, vehicles and everything …
The future of knowledge online: the semantic web
The Semantic Web is Tim Berners-Lee’s name for the version of the Web that links together ideas, concepts and facts instead of documents and pages. It’s sometimes called Web 3.0, …
What else can I learn at the University of Southampton?
We hope you’ve enjoyed this course. The University of Southampton combines academic excellence with an innovative and entrepreneurial approach to research, supporting a culture that engages and challenges students and …
Introduction to the Semantic Web & IoT
In this video, Les and Susan introduce the Semantic Web and the Internet of Things by talking about how we are moving from a Web of documents to a Web …
Arguments for …
In this video, Professor Les Carr presents arguments for net neutrality whilst reminding us that although the Web can be considered as a public open system it is built on …
Arguments against …
In this video, of Professor Les Carr presents some arguments against net neutrality. Here Les takes a less idealistic and more pragmatic position. He recognises that we may have to …
What is net neutrality?
In this video, Professor Les Carr introduce the concept of net neutrality by asking: should the people who provide access to the internet be able to interfere in or to …
Is the Web for everyone?
In this video, Professor Les Carr and Professor Susan Halford talk about how the Web is continually changing. They also point out that the whilst the Web, until recently, mainly …
What is it about the Web that fascinates you?
In this short video you meet Professor Les Carr and Professor Susan Halford, the lead educators, who talk about what drew them to Web Science. In this step we would …
The internet and the Web
In this video, Professor Les Carr explains how the hypertext technologies used on the internet infrastructure became the Web as we know it today. Technically, there are three specific big …
Ideas for the Web that predate the internet and computers
The Web was not the first attempt to create a global information sharing system. Since 1850, various other attempts have been made and, in this video lecture, Professor Les Carr …
What would happen if the Web was turned off tonight?
Welcome to the course. In just 25 years the World Wide Web has grown to become the largest human information system in history, integrated into the everyday lives of billions …