Looking Back At One Woman’s Adventure in Computer Science

April 11, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Looking Back At One Woman’s Adventure in Computer Science

April 11, 2011 – Wendy Hall, previous president for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton in England, ponders on the past and looks forward to the future.

We found this commentary on SD Times in their article, “ACM president Wendy Hall looks back at tenure and ahead to Semantic Web.” Her current research focuses on the Semantic Web. Along with Tim Berners-Lee, she is one of the founding directors of the Web Science Research Initiative, a collaboration between Southampton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hall joined the computer world when women were not common in the computer science field. In fact, it was a time when the Internet’s predecessors were not even considered within the realm of computer science.

This is an interesting article that helps us realize how far the industry has come, as well as how far women have come in it.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.