wendy hall was part of the hypermedia discussions already in the 1990s. microcosm was one of the projects of the multimedia research group in southampton.

a framework for web science 2006 more about the approach 2008.

2010, wendy hall at the royal society 350years celebration, together with

Tim Berners-Lee, Stephen Fry, Jim Haseloff, Bill Thompson | future technolgies

and her thoughts on emerging science on the web, she also will talk about on thursday at the icwe which happens to be in vienna this week.

Astronomers are busier than ever: “I look at our students and ... there's less understanding and more rushing ... we're caught up in this rat race and I don't know what we're chasing.”

Biologists too: “Technology has made me one of the most highly paid, under-talented secretaries on campus. I have to do a lot more than I've ever had to do before, badly.” | nature

a survey with 160 academics: the future of scholarly communication

the forum or astronomers: arxiv.org

the nicest thing of automated timelines is that you can see easily the problem with defining "the first"; as well as the difficulties to make a distinction between numbers and years: ie

laptop:

1525 - ooh la la
1975 - Since the advent of the first commercially available laptop computer
1979 - The first recorded idea of a laptop computer
1983 - Joining the argument to be considered the first-ever laptop is the Gavilan computer, which was designed by Manny Fernandez. In 1983