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Just a quarter of a century since the birth of the World Wide Web, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) has invited its inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, to deliver a public talk about future challenges and opportunities facing the technology. |
Speaking next week about the global impact made by the web, Sir Tim will emphasise that the decisions to shape its development in a positive direction lie firmly within society’s hands. Members of the public are invited to attend the lecture, which is scheduled to take place at 4.30pm on March 23 at Qatar National
Convention Centre.
“Sir Tim has single-handedly touched the lives of most people on earth through his invention of the World Wide Web. He is uniquely qualified to help us see the future of the web, and how we maximise its benefits for humankind,” said Dr Ahmed K Elmagarmid, executive director of QCRI. “QCRI is proud to be working with Sir Tim and the MIT-CSAIL team as part of our joint ongoing research that is delivering benefits for people in Qatar and beyond.”
The lecture, which is titled “The World Wide Web and the Next 25 Years”, will also highlight why principles of integrity, openness and individuals’ freedom to use technology unimpaired should
underpin its governance.
Sir Tim will discuss how he believes the World Wide Web can maximise its benefit to humanity by using its power to promote scientific collaboration to solve major problems, apply democratic and rational principles of governance and build understanding and empathy across national and cultural borders.
The talk coincides with the Annual Meeting between QCRI and MIT-CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology) as part of the seven-year strategic research agreement signed in 2012 between QCRI and MIT-CSAIL to collaborate on joint research projects of benefit to Qatar.
The Annual Meeting on March 23-24 in Doha brings QCRI and MIT-CSAIL experts together to discuss their joint research in five key areas: cyber security, speech and language processing, data management for social computing, advanced analytics and visualisation in sports, and data integration. Sir Tim will participate in the executive overview session on “data management for social computing”.
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