1. Wendy Hall is Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
20 Facts About Wendy Hall
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Wendy Hall studied for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in mathematics at the University of Southampton.
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Wendy Hall completed her Bachelor of Science degree in 1974, and her Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1977.
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Wendy Hall later completed a Master of Science degree in Computing at City University London.
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Wendy Hall's team invented the Microcosm hypermedia system, which was commercialised as a start-up company, Multicosm Ltd.
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Wendy Hall was appointed the university's first female professor of engineering in 1994.
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Wendy Hall then served as Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science from 2002 to 2007.
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In 2006, along with Tim Berners-Lee, Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel Weitzner, Wendy Hall became a founding director of the Web Science Research Initiative.
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The WSRI's activities helped to formally establish the concept of Web Science, and Wendy Hall is executive director of the Web Science Trust.
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Wendy Hall was President of the British Computer Society from 2003 to 2004 and of the Association for Computing Machinery from 2008 to 2010.
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In 2017, Wendy Hall was appointed Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
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Since 2022, Wendy 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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Wendy Hall was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2000 Birthday Honours.
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Wendy Hall was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2009 New Year Honours.
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Wendy Hall has honorary degrees from Oxford Brookes University, Glamorgan University, Cardiff University, Open University of Catalonia and the University of Pretoria.
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Wendy Hall is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
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Wendy Hall was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009.
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Wendy Hall's research is aimed at both understanding the evolution of the web and engineering its future.
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Wendy Hall is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering, and a member of the Academia Europaea.
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Wendy Hall was one of the 30 women identified in the BCS Women in IT Campaign in 2014 and was featured in the e-book of these 30 women in IT, "Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation" produced by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, as a free download e-book, from various sources.