What is Web 2.0?

Speaker:	Prof. Bebo WHITE
		Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC)
		Stanford University

Title:		"What is Web 2.0?"

Date:		Monday, 12 December 2005

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre H
		(Chen Kuan Cheng Forum, near lift nos. 27/28)
		HKUST

ABSTRACT:

"Web 2.0" has quickly become a buzzword in the Web design and development
communities. Despite this attention, there appears to be no agreed-upon
definition of what the technology actually is. Instead, "Web 2.0" appears
to be a loose collection of recently developed concepts and technologies
including Weblogs, Wikis, podcasts, Web feeds and other forms of
publishing. It also includes social software, Web APIs, Web standards,
online Web services, AJAX, and more. In this talk, Bebo White will
describe some of common goals of "Web 2.0" and speculate that rather than
being a new technology that it actually represents the natural evolution
of the Web.



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Biography:

Bebo White is a Computational Physicist and Senior Computing Information
Systems Analyst at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC), the
high-energy physics laboratory operated by Stanford University. He is also
an adjunct professor of Integrated Systems Management at the University of
San Francisco. He has taught classes at HKU since 1998.

In recent years, his work has been dominated by his involvement with World
Wide Web technology, although he remains a contributing member of the
Babar collaboration. He first became involved with WWW development while
on sabbatical at CERN in 1989, and was instrumental in establishing the
first non-European website at SLAC in 1991. Other than WWW, Bebo's
research interests also include Computational Physics, High Energy
Physics, Networked Information Retrieval, Programming Languages and
Technology in K-12 Education.

He has lectured and spoken internationally to academic and commercial
audiences and is the author of five books and numerous articles and
papers. He is a Managing Editor of the Journal of Web Engineering
published by Rinton Press and Chair of the IEEE Working Group on Web
Engineering.

In 1996, Prof. White was added to the MicroTimes 100 list of those making
outstanding contributions to personal computing. He is a member of the
International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), was general
co-chair of WWW2003 (Budapest), is tutorials co-chair of WWW2004 (New
York) and has been cited by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as having
made significant contributions to the development of WWW. He was elected
in April 2002 to the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.