26 PROFESSOR DAME WENDY HALL
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and Dean of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering
I was not always passionate about computing. I started my academic career as a mathematician and hated computing while I was doing my first degree.
It was the 1970s and computing was all about using punched cards to write FORTRAN programs. I gave it up as soon as I found out the course was non-examinable! However, my career took a new turn in the 1980s when I was a lecturer at a college of higher education training the next generation of mathematics teachers. The first personal computers were ...
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