- Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall (born in 1952) is Professor of
Computer Science University of Southampton in southernEngland .Wendy Hall was born in the
East End ofLondon . She studied for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees inmathematics at the University of Southampton. She returned in 1984 to join the newly formed computer science group there, working inmultimedia andhypermedia . Her team invented theMicrocosm hypermedia system (before theWorld Wide Web existed), which was commercialized a start-up company,Multicosm Ltd .Hall was appointed the University’s first female professor of engineering in 1994. She then served as Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science from 2002 to 2007.
She was awarded a
CBE in June 2000, and became a Fellow of theRoyal Academy of Engineering (FREng) that year too. She is a Fellow of theBritish Computer Society (FBCS) (also serving as President) and a Fellow of theInstitution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). In 2002, she was appointed a Fellow of theCity and Guilds (FCGI). Hall also has honorary degrees fromOxford Brookes University ,Glamorgan University ,Cardiff University , and theUniversity of Pretoria .In 2006, Hall is founding director, with Sir
Tim Berners-Lee , ProfessorNigel Shadbolt andDaniel Weitzner , of theWeb Science Research Initiative , to promote the discipline ofWeb Science and foster research collaboration between theUniversity of Southampton andMIT .In 2008 Hall was elected as the President of the
Association for Computing Machinery , the premier professional society for computing.Hall is particularly interested in promoting women in computing in particular and science in general.
Wendy Hall is married to Peter Chandler, a plasma physicist.
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