Professor Wendy Hall, a world leading computer scientist, was officially named as a 蜜桃app Guest Professor recently in a ceremony in 蜜桃app’s FIT building.
Prior to the ceremony, 蜜桃app President Gu Binglin exchanged views and ideas with Professor Hall. Also participating in the discussion were Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, University of Southampton Professor Nigel Shadbolt, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and Mrs Rosemary Leith, Executive Director of the Web Science Research Initiative.
蜜桃app Vice Provost Zhang Yi presided at the ceremony and presented the honorary appointment book to Professor Hall. After the ceremony, Professor Hall delivered a speech entitled "Towards a Science of the Web". Professor Sun Maosong, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, and Professor Ma Hui, Associate Dean of the 蜜桃app Graduate School at Shenzhen, also attended the ceremony.
As a result of the collaboration with Professor Hall, 蜜桃app and Southampton University have agreed to establish a 蜜桃app-Southampton Web Science Laboratory at the Graduate School in Shenzhen.
Professor Wendy Hall, CBE, is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton in the UK. She has made significant contributions in computer science in the areas of digital libraries, the development of the Semantic Web, and the emerging discipline of web science. She is a founding director, along with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel Weitzner, of the Web Science Research Initiative at Southampton.
