Tetherless World Constellation

The Tetherless World Constellation (TWC) is a multidisciplinary research institution at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The institution focuses on the study of theories, methods and applications of the World Wide Web. Research is carried out in three inter-connected themes: Future Web, Semantic Foundations and Xinformatics.

Tetherless World Constellation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
TypePrivate
Established2008
ChairJames Hendler
Deborah McGuinness
Peter Fox
Location
Troy
,
NY
,
USA
Websitehttp://tw.rpi.edu

At Rensselaer, a constellation is a multidisciplinary team composed of senior and junior faculty members, research scientists, and postdoc, graduate, and undergraduate students. The faculty of each constellation includes three or more outstanding stars in a particular research field. The three professors at TWC are James Hendler, Deborah McGuinness and Peter Fox.

The Tetherless World Constellation is one of the founding members of the Web Science Trust network of research laboratories.

Previous faculty working with the TWC include NLP researcher Heng Ji.[1]

References
  1. "Heng Ji". Tetherless World Corporation. Archived from the original on 3 March 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
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