Please join our session “Future Social Computing” at FIA Budapest.

Wednesday, May 18th, 1630.

FIA BUDAPEST: FUTURE SOCIAL COMPUTING

Social computing has come of age and, via the Internet, makes its presence felt in a variety of ways. The tweeting and posting of individual citizens is having remarkable effects on our socio-political procedures and systems, social networking sites are being integrated into business enterprise operations, social computing is becoming context aware and offering new ways to harness the enormous amount of intelligence and knowledge which lies in the heads of the general populace. The time is ripe to examine the consequences of this explosive phenomenon for both the Internet and society at large. This session aims to assess the advances which social computing will make in the future with a view to identifying the support required of the Future Internet infrastructure and the challenges, both technical and social, which are likely to arise as social computing continues to evolve.

ORGANISERS

Nick Taylor (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
Kevin Doolin (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy)