Vision

We bring together disparate research areas to form a common dialogue on the technical issues and how these relate to social, economic, and policy aspects. An initial list of related themes includes:

  • Decentralised infrastructures
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Collective intelligence
  • Blockchains and the Web
  • Cyber Physical Social Systems

We will organise formal and informal research meetings and come together to write scholarly articles and acquire research funding.

Team

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John Domingue

Director of KMi
I am interested in how a combination of blockchain and Linked Data technologies can be used to process personal data in a decentralised trusted manner and how this can be applied in the educational domain.
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Sabrina Kirrane

Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
Technology and society are constantly evolving. Although we can't predict what the future holds we can certainly influence it!
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Luis-Daniel Ibáñez

Research Fellow
My research is centred around finding the right balance between centralisation and decentralisation in socio-technical systems.
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Elena Simperl

Professor of Computer Science
My research is at the intersection between AI and crowd computing. It helps designers understand how to build socio-technical systems that combine machine algorithms with human and social capabilities.
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Allan Third

Research Fellow
My background is in formal semantics and philosophy, and I am interested in the use of practical computing applications to feed back into theoretical advances, and vice versa.
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Ruben Verborgh

Professor of Decentralized Web Technology
Let’s redefine the relation between people, apps, and data. By taking control of our data flow, we take control of our choices. Privacy is nothing but a byproduct of sustainable innovation.
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Olaf Hartig

Associate Professor
I am interested in problems related to the management of data and databases. My focus in this broad context is on data on the Web and on graph data, as well as on problems in which the data is distributed over multiple, autonomous data sources.

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