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 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.