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Wendy Hall

British computer scientist (born 1952)

Dame Wendy Hall (born 25 October 1952) is a British computer scientist. She is Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Wendy Hall (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Oct 25, 1952.¹

Companies

Association for Computing MachineryChair 2008 to 2010²⁵

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of Southampton³
Date not recordedCity, University of London³
Date not recordedThe Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls³

Wendy Hall was born in west London and educated at Ealing Grammar School for Girls. She studied for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in mathematics at the University of Southampton. She completed her Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1974, and her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1977. Her doctoral thesis was titled Automorphisms and coverings of Klein surfaces. She later completed a Master of Science degree in Computing at City University London.

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Career

Occupation: university teacher, computer scientist, mathematician.¹²

2010 to 2014Dean, University of Southampton^{4 10}
2008 to 2010Chair, Association for Computing Machinery¹¹
2002 to 2007Worked at University of Southampton^{4 9}
1994 to 2017Worked at University of Southampton^{4 8}
1984 to 1994Worked at University of Southampton^{4 7}
1978 to 1984Worked at La Sainte Union College of Higher Education^{4 6}
1977 to 1978Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University^{4 5}
Date not recordedWorked at University of Southampton⁴

Hall returned to the University of Southampton in 1984 to join the newly formed computer science group there, working in multimedia and hypermedia. Her team invented the Microcosm hypermedia system (before the World Wide Web existed), which was commercialised as a start-up company, Multicosm Ltd.

Wendy Hall and Hugh Davis led the Multimedia Research Group at the University of Southampton, which created commercial systems near the beginning of the hypertext and database system era, including:

Microcosm 1994 (which used link services)

Distributed Link Services 1995

Multicosm 1998

Portal Maximizer 2001

These systems used a separate server to hold a linkbase and recorded links from anchor points within a Word or pdf document, similar to Vannevar Bush’s original vision of hypertext documents. This linkbase could then be updated and maintained as a separate database to create a separate, flexible overlay for any document.

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.

In 2006, along with Tim Berners-Lee, Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel Weitzner, Hall became a founding director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI). Now known as the Web Science Trust, the WSRI was originally a collaboration between the University of Southampton (ECS) and MIT (CSAIL) which aimed to coordinate and support the study of the World Wide Web. The WSRI's activities helped to formally establish the concept of Web Science, and Hall is now executive director of the Web Science Trust.

Hall was President of the British Computer Society from 2003 to 2004 and of the Association for Computing Machinery from 2008 to 2010. Since 2014, she has served as a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.

In 2017, Hall was appointed Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.

In 2020, she was appointed as Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute by the Nuffield Foundation – the organisation's independent funder, succeeding Alan Wilson.

Since 2022, Hall has been the Editor-in-Chief of Royal Society Open Science and served as the Chair of the Royal Society Publishing Board from 2017 to 2022.

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Personal life

BornOct 25, 1952, London¹³
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom¹⁴
ResidenceNew Forest¹⁵
SpousePeter J Chandler¹⁶

Hall is married to Peter Chandler, a plasma physicist.

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Awards

2016Inspiring Fifty Europe¹⁷
2015honorary doctorate^{17 21}
2011OII Lifetime Achievement Award¹⁷
2010ACM Fellow^{17 20}
2009Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire¹⁷
2009Fellow of the Royal Society¹⁷
2006Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards^{17 19}
2000Commander of the Order of the British Empire¹⁷
Date not recordedDistinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society^{17 18}
Date not recordedFellow of the British Computer Society¹⁷

More awards (6)

Date not recordedFellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology¹⁷
Date not recordedFellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering¹⁷
Date not recordedhonorary degree¹⁷
Date not recordedhonorary degree¹⁷
Date not recordedhonorary degree¹⁷
Date not recordedhonorary degree¹⁷

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WikidataLecturer, Oxford Brookes University, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2023
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WikidataWendy Hall: Chair, Association for Computing Machinery, on Wikidata
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Wikimedia CommonsWendy Hall photo by The Web Science Trust, CC BY 3.0

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