Professor Wendy Hall

Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Email: wh@ecs.soton.ac.uk
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Wendy Hall is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. She was the founding Head of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Research Group in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton and is currently the Deputy Head of Department. Her research interests include the development of multimedia information systems and their applications in education, industry and commerce, open hypermedia systems and link services, digital libraries, multimedia databases, content-based retrieval, agent systems and user interfaces. More information about her research interests and work can be found by looking at her publications and past and current research projects.

Her group developed the open hypermedia system, Microcosm, and she is a director of Multicosm Ltd, now Active Navigation Ltd, the company through which Microcosm has been commercially exploited. The Microcosm software was an ITEA'95 award winner and a BCS IT award winner in 1996. The company has also developed a commercial version of hypermedia link service for the Web based on IAM's Distributed Link Service project. The commercial product is known as Webcosm.
Wendy was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2000, and became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the same year.
She regularly speaks at international conferences, and is a member of a number of editorial boards of journals in her research area, including IEEE MultiMedia and JoDI. She is currently Vice President (Knowledge Services) of the BCS and the holder of an EPSRC Senior Fellowship. She is a member of the EPSRC Council and was a member of the Technology Foresight ITEC panel from 1995-1998.

She was program co-chair for ACM Multimedia'96 and '98 and conference co-chair of ACM Hypertext'97 which was held in Southampton. Wendy is currently vice chair of the IW3C2 and a member of the ACM Publications Board.

She is a non-executive director of a number of company boards including Multicosm Ltd, Itext Ltd, The Company of Biologists, and CA Technology Ltd.