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Strachey Lecture - The Windmills of Your Mind: Reflections of a Career in Computer Science Research

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Dame Wendy Hall reflects on her career in computer science research - from intelligent tutoring systems, through multimedia and open hypermedia, to the semantic web, web science, and social machines.
How did someone with a PhD in algebraic topology end up advising governments around the world on the ethics of AI and the geopolitics of digital governance? In this talk Dame Wendy Hall reflects on her career in computer science research - from intelligent tutoring systems, through multimedia and open hypermedia, to the semantic web, web science, and social machines. All this experience led the government to ask her to co-chair a review of AI policy in the UK which has led to a high profile role in the debate about the future of AI both nationally and internationally. But, as she explores sentiment analysis in Twitter, the application of AI to Chinese Traditional Medicine, the application of topological data analysis to the analysis of social networks and the fragmentation of the internet, her research journey continues. She is never happier than when she is pushing on disciplinary boundaries and making links between seemingly disparate research areas to tackle a problem from a completely new approach. Having learnt at the feet of Ted Nelson that everything is deeply intertwingled, she's always tried to help people make sense of complex interconnected information, like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.

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Computer Science
People
Wendy Hall
Keywords
ai
ethics
digital governance
computer science
multimedia
hypermedia
ai policy
twitter
data analysis
intelligent tutoring systems
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 19/11/2019
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