“The Crowd Keeps Me in Shape”: Social Psychology and the Present and Future of Health Social Machines
A research paper by Max van Kleek, Daniel Smith, Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt on the way the Web can help people live healthier lives.
Articles about Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall in top 100 most powerful women in the UK
The list of the top 100 most powerful women in the UK was compiled by BBC Radio 4’s long running daily programme Woman’s Hour.
The list aims to celebrate the top 100 women who have had the biggest impact on society and have inspired change and acted as role models.
Other women in the list include author J. K. Rowling, Supreme Court judge Baroness Hale, the Queen and artist Tracey Emin.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall said: “I’m delighted to have made the list. I love the way it highlights the increasingly significant role women play in every walk of life in the UK and I’m flattered to have been included in such distinguished company.”
HETWIN: Helping Evaluate the Trustworthiness of Web Information for Web Users Framework using Semantic Web Technologies
A research paper by Jarutas Pattanaphanchai, Kieron O’Hara, and Wendy Hall on a new framework to help users evaluate the trustworthiness of Web information using Semantic Web technology.
Wendy Hall named one of the most influential people in U.K. I.T.
Following on from being named in Computer Weekly’s first ever list of the U.K.’s top 25 most influential women in I.T. in July, Professor Dame Wendy Hall has featured in Computer Weekly’s recently announced list of the most influential people in U.K. I.T.
The list was decided by a reader vote as well as an expert judging panel with representatives from across the I.T. industry.
Professor Hall was recognised for her founding of the Web Science Research Initiative with Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 2006, which is a collaborative research project between the University of Southampton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
mashpoint: Browsing the Web Along Structured Lines
Research paper by Igor Popov, m.c. schraefel, Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt on a new framework for exploring data over distributed systems using a number of different applications.
Open data and charities
A report by Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt, Thanassis Tiropanis, Kieron O’Hara and Tim Davies, describing the ways in which the charitable sector can utilise Open Data to improve intelligence gathering, the targeting of services, knowledge sharing and collaboration with other organisations. The report also discusses technical and organisational challenges in the use of Open Data and makes recommendations for its implementation in the charitable sector.
Wendy Hall named one of the most influential women in I.T. in the U.K.
In Computer Weekly’s first ever list of the top 25 most influential women in I.T. in the U.K. Professor Dame Wendy Hall was placed at number 2.
The women in the list were voted for by readers of Computer Weekly and a panel of leaders from across the I.T. industry.
The reason for the publication of the list is to recognise and focus on female role models in the I.T. industry, in order to encourage more women towards careers in the area (currently less than 20% of people employed in the I.T. sector in the U.K. are female, with this figure falling to below 10% for senior/leadership roles).
Dame Wendy said: “I’m delighted and flattered to have been included in such a distinguished list and I applaud Computer Weekly for their efforts to highlight the role of women in I.T. in the U.K. which is far more significant than is often realised. Such publicity will encourage others to consider careers in an industry that is one of the most exciting and important to be in today.”
Linked Open Government Data: Lessons from data.gov.uk
An article in IEEE Intelligent Systems on open government data, by Nigel Shadbolt, Kieron O’Hara, Tim Berners-Lee, Nicholas Gibbins, Hugh Glaser, Wendy Hall and m.c. schraefel, discussing data migration, integration into the Web of Linked Data, provenance, extracting value from the data and lessons learned from the EnAKTing project.
Adaptive sampling in context-aware systems: a machine learning approach
Research paper by Alex L. Wood, Geoff V. Merrett, Steve R. Gunn, Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, Nigel R. Shadbolt and Wendy Hall, on a new architecture for context awareness which achieves a good balance between energy consumption and reliable context identification.
Wendy Hall appointed to the Board of DSTL
Professor Dame Wendy Hall has been appointed as a non-executive member of the board of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL).
DSTL provides the government with scientific research and technical support on defence and security matters. It is the largest governmental scientific organisation, with 3500 employees spread over 3 different sites and an annual turnover of about £550M.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall said: “I am delighted to be taking up this position on the DSTL board and, having worked with Dstl before, I am looking forward to furthering my relationship with the organisation’s science and technology community.”