CS Forum: Massimo Marchiori
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Far West in the Web
Speaker: Massimo Marchiori
TITLE:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Far West in the Web
PLACE: Room T6 in CS building
ABSTRACT:
The Web is a formidable environment, full of challenges and opportunities.
It is also a highly complex world, where various competing factors lead to scenarios that are similar to the Far West as depicted in movies:
a world with order intermixed with apparent chaos and hazards. In this talk we will show some of these aspects, bringing as lead example Google and its related technology, and illustrating how the troublesome world of the Web leads to grand technological battles, with interesting and counterintuitive effects.
PREREQUISITES:
If you know what the Web and Google are, you are fine: no other prerequisites are assumed.
BIO
In July, 2004, he was awarded the TR35 prize by Technology Review (the best 35 researchers in the world under the age of 35). He is Professor in Computer Science at the University of Padua, and Research Scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in the World Wide Web Consortium.
He was the creator of HyperSearch, a search engine where the results were based not only on single page ranks, but on the relationship between single pages and the rest of the Web. He has been chief editor of the world standard for privacy on the Web (P3P), and co-author of the companion APPEL specification.