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The next wave of the web

Web gurus and geeks descended on Edinburgh, UK, this week for www2006. Chairing the panel 'The Next Wave of the Web' was Nigel Shadbolt, an artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Southampton, UK, and deputy president of the British Computer Society. Declan Butler asks him about the Web's progress.

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Butler, D. The next wave of the web. Nature (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/news060522-21

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