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Wendy Hall (Wendy Hall) was born on 25 October, 1952 in London, United Kingdom, is a British computer scientist. Discover Wendy Hall's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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London, England, UK |
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She is a member of famous Computer with the age 72 years old group.
Wendy Hall Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Wendy Hall's Husband?
Her husband is Peter E. Chandler (m. 1980)
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Wendy Hall Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Wendy Hall worth at the age of 72 years old? Wendy Hall’s income source is mostly from being a successful Computer. She is from United Kingdom. We have estimated
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
In 2020 Hall was appointed as Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute by the Nuffield Foundation – the organisation's independent funder, succeeding Sir Alan Wilson.
In 2017, Hall was appointed Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
She 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.
In February 2013, she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. In her Desert Island Discs in 2014, on the same radio channel, she chose Wikipedia as the book she would most like if abandoned on a desert island.
In 2010, she was named a Fellow of the ACM "for contributions to the semantic web and web science and for service to ACM and the international computing community." In 2016, she was named a Kluge Chair in Technology and society at the Library of Congress. She is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering, and a member of the Academia Europaea.
In 2006, along with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Sir 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.
In 2006, she was the winner of the ABIE Award for Technical Leadership from the Anita Borg Institute.
Hall was President of the British Computer Society from 2003-04 and of the Association for Computing Machinery from 2008-10. Since 2014, she has served as a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.
Hall was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 Birthday Honours. She was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.
In 2000, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) (also serving as President) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). In 2002, she was appointed a Fellow of the City and Guilds (FCGI). Hall was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2009.
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 2002–07.
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 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.
Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng (born 25 October 1952) is a British computer scientist. She is Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.