We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2025 ACM Hypertext Blue Sky Ideas Track, sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)! ACM HT, first held in 1987, two years before the invention of the World Wide Web, showcases high quality, peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems, and applications. In the early years of the conference, researchers focused on key pre-Web hypertext software, including Apple Macintosh’s HyperCard and Eastgate Systems’ Storyspace. Now in its 35th year of holding an annual conference, ACM HT has evolved significantly to focus on new applications of hypermedia brought on by the advent of the internet.

ACM Hypertext 2025 Blue Sky Winners

1st Place
From Links to Dialogue; Hypertext Challenges and Opportunities in Conversational Navigation

Behnam Rahdari, Stanford University

Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh

2nd Place
What is it like to be augmented?

Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems

3rd Place
Agency Among Agents: Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the Algorithmic Web

Sophia Liu, University of California, Berkeley

Shm Garanganao Almeda, University of California, Berkeley

Please join us in congratulating the ACM HT 2025 winners! 

CCC sponsors many Blue Sky tracks at various conferences in computing every year. If you are interested in requesting sponsorship of a Blue Sky track at your conference, please email blueskyideas@cra.org . Requests need only include a brief description of the conference and a proposed list of program committee members for the track. For more information — including guidelines for conference program committees, recommendations for selecting winners, and logistics for issuing CCC-sponsored travel awards to the winners, as well as a sample call for papers for a Blue Sky Ideas track — visit our website.