Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has taken up a professorship at Oxford University's computer science department. The appointment was announced by Oxford on Thursday.

The UK has a genuine opportunity to take a lead on the ethics of artificial intelligence, says Nigel Shadbolt, principal of Jesus College, Oxford and co-founder of the Open Data Institute (ODI).

Last fall, fourth-year students Sarah and Rawan Morshed traded Halifax for Oxford, England and their daily coffee for tea during an academic adventure they won’t soon forget. “There is an indisputable ...