Sue Black (computer scientist)
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Dr Sue Black OBE, FBCS, FRSA |
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Sue Black in Brazil.
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Susan Elizabeth Black 1962 United Kingdom |
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| Nationality | English | ||
| Alma mater | South Bank University | ||
| Occupation | Computer Scientist | ||
| Employer | University College London | ||
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Susan Elizabeth Black OBE FBCS FRSA (born 1962) is a British computer scientist, academic and social entrepreneur. She has been instrumental in saving Bletchley Park, the World War II codebreaking site.
Black left school and home at the earliest legal age, 16. She married at 20 and soon had three children. By 25, she was a single mother living in a women's refuge. She took a maths access course at night school that led to enrolling in undergraduate degree. Black graduated with a computing degree from London's South Bank University in 1993 and earned her PhD in Engineering there in 2001.
The ripple effect is a term within the field of software metrics used with respect to a complexity measure.
Black is a Senior Research Associate at University College London. She was previously Head of the Department of Information and Software Systems at the University of Westminster.
Black was the founding chair of the BCS Specialist Group BCSWomen and remained in that position till 2008.
She is an advocate of women in computing.
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