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Wendy Hall Pull Quotes
Wendy Hall is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. She was the University's first female professor of engineering, and in 2002, she became Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science until 2007. She founded the University of Southampton's Reasearch Group, Intelligence, Agents, and Multimedia, and she is also a founding director of the Web Science Research Initiative, a joint initiative between the University of Southampton and MIT. Wendy was elected President of the Association of Computing Machinery, serving from July 2008 through June 2010. She was President of the British Computer Society from 2003 to 2004, and currently she is the Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
This webpage gives excerpts taken from the interview of Wendy Hall conducted on the 12th of September 2006 at the University of Southampton in Southampton by Alison Young. The entire interview and transcript are also available from here.
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Web Science Research Initiative Website
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"I was told I couldn't have this job because as a young woman, I probably wouldn't be able to control a class full of male engineers." Link to this audio snippet in new window "What I'm passionate about is the fact that we don't have any women in the subject, and this is a hugely big issue, and I think it won't change significantly until we change the style of what we are teaching. Because I think what we are teaching at the moment just doesn't appeal to women." Link to this audio snippet in new window "[P]eople imagine that the only thing you can do is sit and program all day, it's you and your computer, and actually you and I know that it's all about people and networks at every level be they physical networks, or people networks...and organizational skills, because usually, whatever you are doing, you are organizing something that is very complex. And women just have the skills that are needed for that and we can excel in it." Link to this audio snippet in new window |
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