#  Watt Wise Web 

 



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The Web is continuously transforming society---shaping communications, catalyzing innovations, even shaping thought processes. Over the past two decades, the role of the Web has shifted from information retrieval (Web 1.0) to providing a platform for interactive and engaging user experiences (Web 2.0). The Web is once again entering a new age, transcending user engagement to provide intelligent services that integrate multiple devices together (Web 3.0). The key driving force behind the Web's evolution is the ubiquity of mobile/embedded devices---undoubtedly today's most pervasive personal computing platform. The major challenge is mobile and embedded devices’ tight battery budget and performance constraints, which severely limits the sustained performance and operation time of the devices that are running the mobile web stack, and as a direct result, functionality can become severely limited.



 

##  1990 

 **HTML**   
The inception of world wide web.

##  1996 

 **JAVASCRIPT**  
For the first time the Web became dynamic.

##  2008 

 **SMARTPHONE**  
Mobile Web takes control as mobile devices surged.

##  2012 

 **RESPONSIVENESS**  
Responsiveness became the first-class design consideration of mobile Web.

##  2016 

 **WATT-WISE WEB**  
Energy-efficiency became the key to the success of mobile Web

##  2019 

 **WEB OF THINGS**  
We are in the era when the Web is no longer only about software, it has entered the era of "Things."



 

 Our research mission is to build an energy-efficient and high-performance web computing substrate, which spans across the hardware and software layers. At the hardware layer, we are interested in architectural support to improve the performance of web technologies in the face of severe energy constraints. At the software layer, we are interested in building intelligent runtimes and programming languages that can enable the web computations to be more easily expressed and computed upon for both ease of programmability and efficiency.



 

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