The future of the World Wide Web Jim Hendler Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science Assistant Dean of Information Technology and Web Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler @jahendler (twitter)
The innovators The inventors
They have made the Web what it is today
And on and on and on… In the News Today!  Reports FB could go IPO as early as Wednesday!  (valuation:  ₹ 5 lakh crore) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I
In fact, we  have made it to“Web 2.0” It is estimated that ~31% of the world ’s population uses the World Wide Web  With most of China and India still to come (>2B non-users) And this number is growing as cell phones and mobile Web technologies become increasingly usable as primary browser platforms With social networking sites, esp. Facebook and the Chinese sites, becoming the primary Web destinations Sharing taking over from searching just ask Vic Gundotra (IIT Madras), Google’s  VP of Social
But we’re moving on…
What will Web 3.0 be? Big data, Linked-data, Cloud- and mobile- computing are changing the world We Don’t know how these trends will play out Web:  Google, Amazon, Travelocity… Web 2.0: Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter… Web 3.0: ?? Let me make a few predictions
An exciting time of change Web 2.0 is becoming Web 3.0 But nobody is sure what that will be My conjecture Web 1.0 + Web 2.0 = Web 3.0 Social Web will become the basis of the New Web Changing Search Changing E-commerce Changing E-Science, E-government, E-everything else Social Media => Social Machines!
Trend 1:  Social Media => Social Machines Computers can help if we use them to create abstract  social machines  on the Web:  processes in which the people do the creative work and the machine does the administration … Berners-Lee,  Weaving the Web ,  1999
Social Machine: Games Turning your fun into their money!
Social Machine: Science
Millions of galaxies classified
The whole “ Zooniverse ”
Social machine research
Web 3.0 and Social Machines See Trend 1 Social Data Goes Here
Government Data Sharing: Year 2
Government Data Sharing: Year 3 2012 so far: http://www.gouv.fr Released 300,000 French databases  US/India to release Open Government Platform  Kenya announces “Open Africa” project
Communities consuming Open Government Data
Social Machine: Government
Social Machine:  Improving Government
Trend 2: Mobile goes Social Mobile Web
Mobile + Social  The device formerly known as a cell phone Knows me where I am now  where I was yesterday (and a bunch of days before) where I'll be tomorrow (and into my planned future) What my environment is like Am I moving or still; quiet or noisy;  who and what I like whose opinions I trust how I like to see things what other dfkcp's are around (and who they belong to) … Knows what is out there and how to get it That whole data cloud thing, remember Web 3.0 back in the 2010s
Trend 3: Speech is finally (almost) here Tetherless World
Two Way Machine Translation By 2020 you will be able to talk to me in Hindi  और मैं अंग्रेजी में जवाब देंगे using just our machines formerly known as cell phones
Trend 4: Bigger and Bigger data
Exponential Data growth In 2012 we will ge nerate more data than in  the whole previou s   history of humankind In 2013 we will do  that again In 2014 we will do  that again …
Trend 5: Semantic, Linked Data is coming
Crazy (sort of) Prediction  Something unlikely will make things exciting all over again Machines that function like the brain Machines that interface to the brain Quantum computers that can change the basis of parallel computing
Prediction 7: (A safe bet) IIT Kharagpur IIT, Roorkee IIT, Madras BHU Some 2000 – 2010 Famous Webbies
Future Famous Webbies?
You  are the future of the Web! Right Place  India is becoming a major Web power Right Age You are a digital native Right Fields  Engineer/Computer Scientist/Engineer BUT EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY…
WE  are the Web! Right Species:  The network of people is the future of the World Wide Web And that future has started already
Questions?

Future of the World WIde Web (India)

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    The future ofthe World Wide Web Jim Hendler Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science Assistant Dean of Information Technology and Web Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler @jahendler (twitter)
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    They have madethe Web what it is today
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    And on andon and on… In the News Today! Reports FB could go IPO as early as Wednesday! (valuation: ₹ 5 lakh crore) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I
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    In fact, we have made it to“Web 2.0” It is estimated that ~31% of the world ’s population uses the World Wide Web With most of China and India still to come (>2B non-users) And this number is growing as cell phones and mobile Web technologies become increasingly usable as primary browser platforms With social networking sites, esp. Facebook and the Chinese sites, becoming the primary Web destinations Sharing taking over from searching just ask Vic Gundotra (IIT Madras), Google’s VP of Social
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    What will Web3.0 be? Big data, Linked-data, Cloud- and mobile- computing are changing the world We Don’t know how these trends will play out Web: Google, Amazon, Travelocity… Web 2.0: Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter… Web 3.0: ?? Let me make a few predictions
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    An exciting timeof change Web 2.0 is becoming Web 3.0 But nobody is sure what that will be My conjecture Web 1.0 + Web 2.0 = Web 3.0 Social Web will become the basis of the New Web Changing Search Changing E-commerce Changing E-Science, E-government, E-everything else Social Media => Social Machines!
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    Trend 1: Social Media => Social Machines Computers can help if we use them to create abstract social machines on the Web: processes in which the people do the creative work and the machine does the administration … Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web , 1999
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    Social Machine: GamesTurning your fun into their money!
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    The whole “Zooniverse ”
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    Web 3.0 andSocial Machines See Trend 1 Social Data Goes Here
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    Government Data Sharing:Year 3 2012 so far: http://www.gouv.fr Released 300,000 French databases US/India to release Open Government Platform Kenya announces “Open Africa” project
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    Social Machine: Improving Government
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    Trend 2: Mobilegoes Social Mobile Web
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    Mobile + Social The device formerly known as a cell phone Knows me where I am now where I was yesterday (and a bunch of days before) where I'll be tomorrow (and into my planned future) What my environment is like Am I moving or still; quiet or noisy; who and what I like whose opinions I trust how I like to see things what other dfkcp's are around (and who they belong to) … Knows what is out there and how to get it That whole data cloud thing, remember Web 3.0 back in the 2010s
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    Trend 3: Speechis finally (almost) here Tetherless World
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    Two Way MachineTranslation By 2020 you will be able to talk to me in Hindi और मैं अंग्रेजी में जवाब देंगे using just our machines formerly known as cell phones
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    Trend 4: Biggerand Bigger data
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    Exponential Data growthIn 2012 we will ge nerate more data than in the whole previou s history of humankind In 2013 we will do that again In 2014 we will do that again …
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    Trend 5: Semantic,Linked Data is coming
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    Crazy (sort of)Prediction Something unlikely will make things exciting all over again Machines that function like the brain Machines that interface to the brain Quantum computers that can change the basis of parallel computing
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    Prediction 7: (Asafe bet) IIT Kharagpur IIT, Roorkee IIT, Madras BHU Some 2000 – 2010 Famous Webbies
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    You arethe future of the Web! Right Place India is becoming a major Web power Right Age You are a digital native Right Fields Engineer/Computer Scientist/Engineer BUT EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY…
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    WE arethe Web! Right Species: The network of people is the future of the World Wide Web And that future has started already
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Editor's Notes

  • #7 The Web has gone from an application to a development platform – new webapps, like twitter, live on top of the Web architecture, putting new and exciting engineering challenges on the underlying technologies.
  • #12 One new thing happening in Science, emphasized by a project such as Galaxy zoo, is using many many non-scientiststs help scientists solve hard and important projects – there is a huge opportunity for new technologies that can help us manage the scientific, engineering and even social problems facing our world. It is a huge area for new tools and technologies to be deployed.
  • #22 And for 4.0 - one big change is the move to mobile computing – there are now many billions of more cellular phones than laptops in the world, and these machines are becoming more and more capable – we need to combine communications and information technology to create the mobile Web
  • #24 The slogan of Rensselaer is “Why not change the world” – with a combination of Web, Data and Communications technology, that is just what we are doing!