Web Science Summer School - First keynote speech from Professor Dame Wendy Hall

Professor Dame Wendy Hall gives the opening keynote on Monday morning in Nightingale building. She was recently named Computer Weekly’s most influential woman in UK IT, and currently serves as director of the WSI and managing director of the Web Science Trust. Her research interests cover a broad set of issues within the areas of multimedia and hypermedia. She has particular involvement in the novel challenges embedded within Digital Libraries and the Semantic web. Involvement with a platform grant (Sociam) embraces the desire to create social systems on the web – social machines – that are efficient, interrogatable, and capable of solving complex problems at a large scale. Blogging from WSI Intern and DigiChamp Alex Hovden.