Tetherless World Constellation

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Tetherless World Constellation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Type	Private
Established	2008
Chair	James Hendler Deborah McGuinness Peter Fox
Location	Troy , NY , USA
Website	http://tw.rpi.edu

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.

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]

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

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