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Science 11 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5788, pp. 769 - 771
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126902
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COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Creating a Science of the Web

Tim Berners-Lee,1 Wendy Hall,2 James Hendler,3 Nigel Shadbolt,2 Daniel J. Weitzner1

Understanding and fostering the growth of the World Wide Web, both in engineering and societal terms, will require the development of a new interdisciplinary field.

1T. Berners-Lee and D. J. Weitzner are at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

2W. Hall and N. Shadbolt are in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.

3J. Hendler is in the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. E-mail: hendler{at}cs.umd.edu

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