A paper by Markus Luczak-Roesch, Ramine Tinati, Saud Aljaloud, Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt on a design for a socio-technical
computing machine that allows collective problem solving activities to emerge naturally, without the need for initial problem structuring work or task definition.
A paper by Kieron O’Hara, Nigel Shadbolt and Wendy Hall for the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Chatham House, examining the tensions between individual rights to privacy and transparency and the rights to free speech.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall was named in the Inspiring Fifty list of Most Inspirational Women in European Technology for 2016. The aim of Inspiring Fifty is to address the gender imbalance in technology. It arranges events and produces publications to motivate, inspire and educate women in the technology sector.
Janneke Niessen, co-initiator of Inspiring Fifty, said “Looking at the Inspiring Fifty of this year really makes me proud. These fifty women are the best of the best, with truly inspirational careers.”
Shari Yoder Doherty from Atomico, which is in partnership with Inspiring Fifty, said “What a fantastic group of inspirational women. It was a tough selection process as we had hundreds of impressive nominations, but these fifty stood out for their experience and achievements, particularly over the past year. One thing they all have in common is a very obvious passion for the tech industry, which makes them the perfect role models to inspire other women looking to build a career in the sector.”
Professor Dame Wendy Hall has begun a three month tenure in the prestigious post of Kluge Chair of Technology and Society at the Library of Congress in the United States of America.
Professor Hall will work on a research project entitled “Internet Histories and Futures.” She will also chair a public symposium on the ways in which institutions can archive the contents of the Web and co-host a two-day “hackathon.”
The USA Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
A Q&A with Professor Dame Wendy Hall for the Royal Academy of Engineering to celebrate International Women’s Day. She discusses her motivations for choosing to go into engineering, her current research and being a woman engineering.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall has been made a Distinguished Fellow by the British Computer Society, the British Chartered Institute for Information Technology.
She was recognised for her work in science and engineering policy and education, being one of the first computer scientists to carry out research in multimedia and hypermedia and her role in championing women in Information Technology.
Other notable Distinguished Fellows include Bill Gates, Sir Tim Berners Lee, Martha Lane-Fox and Vint Cerf.
The Debrett top 500 is a list of the most influential people in the UK who “inspire, influence and instigate change beyond expectation.”
Professor Dame Wendy Hall was named in the Engineering and Technology category. The list is compiled by independent experts in each category.
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A paper by Ramine Tinati, Xin Wang, Thanassis Tiropanis and Wendy Hall, presenting the Web Observatory: a platform for gathering, querying and analysing heterogeneous real-time and historic data. The Web Observatory’s potential uses and the possible challenges are also discussed.
A paper by Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Rösch, E. Simperl, Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt, describing research into the citizen science game EyeWire. Over 4 million interactions made by 90,000 players were analysed, providing an insight into the features of a successful citizen science platform.
A paper for the Australia and New Zealand School of Government on a project to enable government data to be easily shared, analysed and visualised, while maintaining data safety and security.
The new platform is entitled the ‘Government Web Observatory’ and is hosted by an Australian university.