And the Awards Go To...

How could our report on WWW8 be complete without citing the four big winners of awards at the conference? Congratulations to all of the winners!

Best Paper

Focused Crawling: A New Approach for Topic-Specific Resource Discovery

Soumen Chakrabarti, Martin van den Berg, Bryon Dom

earlier Focused Crawling overview

Best Presentation

A Query Language for XML [aka: XML-QL]

Alin Deutsch, Mary Fernandez, Daniela Florescu, Alon Levy, Dan Suciu

XML-QL: A Query Language for XML

initial draft of XML-QL as W3C Note

Best Poster

WebPlaces: Adding People to the Web [JPEG]

Paul P. Maglio, Rob Barrett

Yuri Rubinsky Award

Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, won the Yuri Rubinsky Award for his contributions to the software industry. Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, wrote the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), G NU Emacs, and various other GNU programs. Interviewed live via satellite with QuickCam, Stallman suggested that Europeans Web developers visit and support freepatents.org, "Protecting Innovation & Competition in the IT Industry".

IBM, one of the WWW8 sponsors, was well represented technically at the conference. See the article on IBM's site: Almaden Researchers Receive Top Honors at the WWW8 Conference.

Other Interesting Presentations
WWWhat Happened at WWW8?
Conclusions: Recurring Themes