About Wendy Hall
Dame Wendy Hall is a British computer scientist. She is Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton. Hall was appointed the university's first female professor of engineering in 1994. Her team invented the Microcosm hypermedia system (before the World Wide Web existed), which was commercialised as a start-up company, Multicosm Ltd. She won the Suffrage Science award in 2016. In 2006, along with Tim Berners-Lee, Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel Weitzner, Hall became a founding director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI).
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