Sue Black (computer scientist)

For other people named Sue Black, see Sue Black (disambiguation).

Dr Sue Black (born 1962) FBCS FRSA is an English computer scientist. She is a Senior Research Associate at University College London, England.^[1] Previously she was Head of the Department of Information and Software Systems at the University of Westminster, London. Sue Black founded BCSWomen, a Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, in 2001, and was chair of the group until 2008. She has been instrumental in championing the saving of Bletchley Park.^[2]

Sue Black graduated from South Bank University, London, in 1993. She received her PhD from South Bank University in 2001, on Computation of Ripple Effect Measures for Software, while a lecturer there.^[3][4] The ripple effect is a term within the field of software metrics used with respect to a complexity measure.^[5]

Black was the founding chair of the BCS Specialist Group BCSWomen^[6] and is an advocate of women in computing.^[7]

Black runs a blog to help raise awareness of and funding for Bletchley Park,^[8] the UK World War II centre for decrypting enemy messages.^[2][9] She has also used other Web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook and Twitter for this purpose.^[10][11] She has appeared on BBC television, radio and in press articles.^{[9][12][13][14]}

In 2009, Sue Black won the first John Ivinson Award from the British Computer Society at the Royal Society in London.

References

1. ^ Sue Black University College London, UK.
2. ^ ^{a b} Saving Bletchley Park.
3. ^ Dr Sue Black: Publications.
4. ^ "Susan Elizabeth Black". Mathematics Genealogy Project. American Mathematical Society. http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=103014. Retrieved June 15, 2011. 
5. ^ Black, Sue, Computing ripple effect for software maintenance, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, pages 263–279, 2001. doi:10.1002/smr.233
6. ^ Dr Sue Black | Committee | BCSWomen, British Computer Society.
7. ^ Sue Black, Skirts and Ladders.
8. ^ Brain, Jon, Neglect of Bletchley condemned, BBC News, 24 July 2008.
9. ^ ^{a b} Cellan-Jones, Rory, Bletchley Park's social media war, BBC News, 18 March 2009.
10. ^ Thomson, Rebecca, Bletchley Park wins crucial funding using Facebook and Twitter, Computer Weekly, 19 March 2009.
11. ^ Sue Black, Jonathan P. Bowen, and Kelsey Griffin, Can Twitter Save Bletchley Park? In David Bearman and Jennifer Trant (editors), MW2010: Museums and the Web 2010, Denver, USA, 13–17 April 2010. Archives & Museum Informatics.
12. ^ Dr Sue Black: Press.
13. ^ Smyth, Chris, Scientists send clear message: save Bletchley Park, The Times, 24 July 2008.
14. ^ Arthur, Charles, Bletchley Park's codebreakers get glimpse of lottery funding, The Guardian, 29 September 2009.

External links

• Dr Sue Black website
• Sue Black bibliography in the DBLP database
• Sue Black (Dr_Black) on Twitter
• 19 minute Video interview with Sue Black by Robert Llewellyn about Bletchley Park

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Name	Black, Sue
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Short description	Computer scientist
Date of birth	1962
Place of birth	United Kingdom
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