Just thought it would be nice to note a woman is recieving this honor. Honestly, when you think of the beginnings of computers et al, you think of the men, but it looks like one of us was pretty instrumental also. Take that Larry Summers.
A professor who invented a forerunner of the world wide web has been made a dame in the New Year Honours.
Wendy Hall created the "open hypermedia system" Microcosm with colleagues after joining the University of Southampton computer science group in 1984.
And in 1994 she became the university's first female professor of engineering.
Professor Hall, 56, was made a CBE in 2000 for services to science and technology and is considered one of the best computer scientists in the world.
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