Wendy Hall is a leading computer scientist who has made significant contributions to our understanding of the interactions between humans and large networks of computers, such as the internet. Consequently, Wendy is playing a prominent role in the development of web science as an emerging discipline.
She is well known for her development of the hypermedia system in the mid-1980s, which was a forerunner to the World Wide Web. Together with Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues, in 2006 she co-founded the world’s first interdisciplinary body to study the structure and sociology of the web — the Web Science Research Initiative (now the ).
Her work now focuses on understanding the social, financial and technological influences that drive the evolution of the web. Additionally, she is a champion of women in science, engineering and technology and has used her many leadership positions to further this cause. Wendy was awarded a CBE in 2000 for services to science and technology and subsequently received a DBE, in 2009.
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Engineering and Materials Science
Computer engineering (including software)
