The Web has fundamentally changed how we learn, play, communicate, and work. Its influence has become so monumental that it has given birth to a new science: Web Science, or the science of decentralized information structures. Although Web Science is interdisciplinary by nature, this course will be focusing mainly on the computing aspects of the Web: how it works, how it is used, and how it can be analyzed. We will examine a number of topics including: web architecture, web characterization and analysis, web archiving, Web 2.0, social networks, collaborative intelligence, search engines, web mining, information diffusion on the web, cloud computing, and the Semantic Web.
Programming projects will use Python, HTML & JavaScript, some Google APIs, and the Facebook API.
Prerequisites: COMP 245 & 250
Thursday, November 04, 2010
New Web Science course offered in Spring 2011
I'll be offering an Introduction to Web Science course this Spring. Web Science is an emerging field of study which encompasses computer science, law, economics, and a number of other disciplines. This course is for upper-level CS majors and will therefore focus mainly on computing aspects of Web Science. Below is a description of the course. If you are a Harding CS major looking for a challenging and enlightening elective, I hope you'll consider taking it.
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Hello Frank,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all I'd like to thank you a lot for Warrick tool. It's very helpful for a friend of mine these days.
Then I'd like to ask -and hope the answer would be of interest for many blog readers- how could I add another search engine as a repository besides ia, google, msn and yahoo. I'd like to add the Russian search engine www.yandex.ru which is the only known engine that still holds in its archive some lost pages.
Thank you and maybe some of you could suggest some other new engines.
Best regards,
Ovidiu Catrina
Hello Ovidiu - please email me about this. It's not very easy to add a new search engine, but if you have some Perl programming experience and some time on your hands, I'm sure you could implement a solution.
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