Web 2.0

Speaker: Bebo White

Date: Thursday, May 11, 2006
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Location: Orange Conference Room, Bldg 40
Goodies: Tea and cookies provided

Speaker's Summary:

The web has come along way since the first US web site was installed at SLAC in 1991 and recently the term "Web 2.0" has been coined to encompass a number of new technologies being used to develop next generation web sites. The definition of the term and its scope are still evolving, but to many observers "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 collaborative publishing. Added to this mix are social software, Web APIs, Web standards, online Web services, AJAX, and more. In this talk, Bebo White will describe some of common unifying goals and techniques of "Web 2.0", demonstrate how these new technologies are being used today, and speculate that rather than being a new technology that it actually represents the natural evolution of the Web. He will also discuss the implications that "Web 2.0" promises to have on the future of Web Information Systems.

About the Speaker:

Bebo White is a long time denizen of SLAC's computer centre and in addition holds faculty appointments at Hong Kong University, the University of San Francisco, and Contra Costa College. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, academic institutions, and for commercial organizations around the world. Bebo has been a member of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) since 1996 and in that time has served as General Co-Chair of two of the conferences and Tutorial and Workshops Co-Chair for four of the conferences. He is one of the managing editors of "The Journal of Web Engineering" and "The Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching." and is on the organizing committee for the "Sixth International Conference on Web Engineering" to be held at SLAC this summer.