An interview with Professor Dame Wendy Hall on Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Lateline. She discusses a range of issues relating to the Web, including data privacy, data provenance and the role of IT in education.
An interview with Professor Dame Wendy Hall in Tech Nation, in which she discusses the future opportunities provided by the Web, but also the need for building in mechanisms for assurance and trust for Web data and interactions.
Dame Wendy Hall was appointed to the prestigious post of Regius Professor in Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
Regius professorships are posts which have royal patronage. The post was originally created in 2013 and is the only Regius Professorship in Computer Science in the country.
Dame Wendy said of her appointment: “I am pleased to accept this prestigious honour from the University and from Her Majesty The Queen. The Regius Professorship signifies an important honour for the University, the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, and the discipline of Computer Science at Southampton. It also represents years of hard work by a world-leading team of people which I’m proud to continue to lead. I believe it’s a critical time in our history to contribute to our increased understanding of the power of the World Wide Web and the physical and social impact it makes on our daily lives.”
More details can be found here.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has appointed Professor Dame Wendy Hall and former IBM Chief Data Scientist Jerome Pesenti to lead a review of the UK Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector. The government has also allocated funding of £17.3m to UK universities for carrying out research into AI and robotics.
The review will look into the ways in which government and industry could collaborate in this area and how the sector could grow.
On her appointment Professor Dame Wendy Hall said:
“Our scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs are at the forefront of the development of artificial intelligence and I’m looking forward to exploring how industry and government can work together to support the technology in the UK.”
Professor Dame Wendy Hall was named in the list under the engineering and technology category.
Reasons for her being listed include her being a founding director of the Web Science Research Initiative, her presidency of the British Computer Society and being a pioneering researcher into multi-media technologies.
A pod-cast interview with Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt in the Financial Times, in which he discusses Open Data, privacy, security and re-empowering the consumer.
Seme4 has launched the Horizon Scanning demonstrator – an innovative new piece of software for linking and visualising global data.
The demonstrator, commissioned by KISTI (the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), enables linking and visualisation of a range of data sources, including global threats, influenza outbreak locations and worldwide air travel passenger movements to/from the UK.
More details can be found here.
An article by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt about open data on the website Information Age. He discusses the need for investment in data infrastructure, improved data literacy and encouragement of innovation.
An article by Professor Dame Wendy Hall written for the Campaign for Science and Engineering, in which she discusses the value of Web Science being an interdisciplinary field, and the need for systems and structures (research funding agencies, university management structures, etc.) to adapt to this way of working.
A manifesto for Web Science by Professors Wendy Hall, Jim Hendler and Steffen Staab, in which they discuss the challenges relating to the World Wide Web such as cyber-crime and privacy, and propose ways to address these challenges, for example through regulation.