Tetherless World Constellation
The Tetherless World Constellation is a multidisciplinary research institution at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 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. Faculty working with the TWC includes Heng Ji .
The Tetherless World Constellation is one of the founding members of the Web Science Trust network of research laboratories.
