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Who Are We?

Untangling the Web is a podcast of the Web Science Trust, a charity promoting the understanding of the Web through education and research in the discipline of Web Science.

On this podcast, we bring thought leaders from around the world to explore how the Web is shaping society and how society in turn is shaping the Web. We hope to improve our understanding of the Web, promote the Web’s positive impact on society – and change the Web for the better. The podcast is hosted by the SONIC Research Group at Northwestern University.

Episode 27 Show Notes

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Deb’s website:

About Deb

Deb’s CV

Some of Deb’s Books:

  1. Leslie Sikos, Oshani Seneviratne, Deborah L. McGuinness.  Provenance in Data Science: From Data Models to Context-Aware Knowledge Graphs.  Springer, 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-67680-3 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67681-0 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030676803
  2. Elisa F. Kendall and Deborah L. McGuinness. Ontology Engineering.  Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology.  Morgan and Claypool Publishers. 2019.  ISBN: 9781681733081. https://www.amazon.com/Ontology-Engineering-Synthesis-Lectures-Semantic/dp/1681733102
  3. Franz Baader, Diego Calvanese, Deborah L. McGuinness, Daniele Nardi, and Peter F. Patel-Schneider, editors, The Description Logic Handbook: Theory, Implementation and Applications, Cambridge University Press, 2003. Second edition, 2006.
  4. Isabel Cruz, Stefan Decker, Jerome Euzenat, and Deborah L. McGuinness, editors. The Emerging Semantic Web. IOS Press, 2002. (Available from http://www.iospress.nl/site/html/boek-1381825766.html.)
  5. Joanne S. Luciano, Grant P. Cumming. Eva Kahana, Mark D. Wilkinson, Elizabeth H Brooks, Dominick DiFranzo, Holly Jarman, Deborah L. McGuinness, Margaret Levine, Cathy Pope. Health Web Science.  Now Publishers Inc. Hanover, MA, USA , 2014.

Where to Find Deb’s Articles:

  1. Google Scholar 
  2. DBLP 
  3. ResearchGate 

Deb’s Social media:

Twitter: @dlmcguinness

LinkedIn profile

ORCID: 0000-0001-7037-4567

Episode 27: Deborah McGuinness on Using Web Science to Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy

 

Our guest for this episode is Deborah McGuinness, Professor of Computer, Cognitive, and Web Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Deborah specializes in creating ontology-enabled research infrastructure for work in interdisciplinary settings. 

In this episode, Deborah explains how we can use ontologies to create programs that help us make the best decisions, from pairing wine and food to choosing to start a new medication. She shares her excitement about the potential intersections between health science and web science, detailing ways that medical professionals and web scientists can work together to elevate how we provide medical care. 

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Episode 26 Show Notes

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Sandra’s website

https://sandragonzalezbailon.net/

Links or cites to your Articles:

Some of Sandra’s Recent Publications:

(1) Yang T, Majó-Vázquez S, Nielsen RK, & González-Bailón S (2020) Exposure to news grows less fragmented with an increase in mobile access. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(46):28678-28683. Paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/46/28678

(2) González-Bailón S & De Domenico M (2021) Bots are less central than verified accounts during contentious political events. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(11):e2013443118. Paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/11/e2013443118

Sandra’s Book:

Decoding the Social World

Sandra’s Social Media:

Twitter: @sgonzalezbailon

Episode 26: The Role of Research with Sandra González-Bailón

 

In this episode, we chat with Sandra González-Bailón, who is on the faculty at the Annenberg School for Communication. Her research lies at the intersection of network science, data mining, computational tools and political communication. She is the author of Decoding the Social World, published by MIT Press in 2017, and was also the keynote speaker of the ACM Web Science Conference in 2019.

During this conversation, Sandra discussed some of her research about people’s news exposure — and what it surprisingly revealed. She also explains how the medium of data that gets studied — the web v.s. apps data and desktop v.s. mobile data — can impact results. And she digs into how exactly research can help the world — but also that the world needs to know the right questions to ask. To hear all this and more, take a listen of this episode.

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Episode 25 Show Notes

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Nigel’s website

http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nigel.shadbolt/ 

Some of Nigel’s Articles:

Some of Nigel’s Books:

Nigel’s Social Media:

Twitter: @Nigel_Shadbolt

Lab website 

Nigel’s Recent Talks:

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt in conversation: “The Web, internet and data during the pandemic: lessons learnt and new directions”

Keynote Speech by Sir Nigel Shadbolt｜WWW 2020

Artificial Intelligence and Open Data: A Conversation with Sir Nigel Shadbolt

Episode 25: Semantic Web Science with Nigel Shadbolt

 

In this special 25th episode of Untangling the Web, we talk with one of the founders of web science, Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt. He’s Principal of Jesus college and professorial Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Oxford.  As information adviser to the United Kingdom government, he encouraged the release of many 1000s of public sector data sets. He was knighted in 2013 for services to science and engineering.

During this episode, Nigel recounts some of those founding conversations and intentions surrounding the creation of the web science field, as well as some of his more recent work. Nigel, who was on the forefront of the Semantic Web, also explains exactly what that means — and what the web might look like today if it had expanded. To hear to this and more, listen to this episode.

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Episode 24: Azeem Azhar on the Exponential Age

 

For this episode, we talk with Azeem Azhar, an entrepreneur, investor and author. Previously, he founded PeerIndex, a big data analytics firm acquired in 2015. And his first book, “The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society,” was just published this month.

Azeem was an early user of the Web — he takes us back to those days and tells us about some of the first social media sites. Then, he describes what it was like when platforms like Facebook and Twitter were much more open, which also allowed more data to be collected. But he also brings us to the present, where we live in the “exponential age.” He breaks down exactly what that means and more in this latest episode.

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