Berners-Lee Takes Chair at Southampton

Richard James of HP points us to the breaking news that Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, is moving to the University of Southampton as a chair of their Computer Science Department. He will also retain his MIT appointments. Both of the links in the quote below have useful information about AI/Semantic Web work in the UK. Here is their press release. Richard writes:

....You may remember the name Professor Nigel Shadbolt as this was one of the contacts that was highlighted to us by David Dupplaw. Since HP has strong Semantic links with Southampton University it will be interesting to see what impact (if any) that Tim's appointment will have on that work...