Wendy Hall
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| Born | Wendy Hall 25 October 1952 London |
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| Residence | New Forest | ||
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| Thesis | Automorphisms and coverings of Klein surfaces (1977) | ||
| Doctoral advisor | David Singerman | ||
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| Spouse | Peter E. Chandler (m. 1980) | ||
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Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng (born 25 October 1952) is the Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, England.
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.
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.
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.
In 2006, Hall became a founding director of the Web Science Research Initiative (now called the Web Science Trust), along with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel Weitzner, in order to promote the discipline of Web Science and foster research collaboration between the University of Southampton and MIT.
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