Sue Black (computer scientist)

For other people named Sue Black, see Sue Black (disambiguation).

Dr Sue Black (born 1962) FBCS FRSA is an English computer scientist. She is a Senior Research Associate at University College London, England.[1] Previously she was Head of the Department of Information and Software Systems at the University of Westminster, London. Sue Black founded BCSWomen, a Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, in 2001, and was chair of the group until 2008. She has been instrumental in championing the saving of Bletchley Park.[2]

Sue Black graduated from South Bank University, London, in 1993. She received her PhD from South Bank University in 2001, on Computation of Ripple Effect Measures for Software, while a lecturer there.[3][4] The ripple effect is a term within the field of software metrics used with respect to a complexity measure.[5]

Black was the founding chair of the BCS Specialist Group BCSWomen[6] and is an advocate of women in computing.[7]

Black runs a blog to help raise awareness of and funding for Bletchley Park,[8] the UK World War II centre for decrypting enemy messages.[2][9] She has also used other Web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook and Twitter for this purpose.[10][11] She has appeared on BBC television, radio and in press articles.[9][12][13][14]

In 2009, Sue Black won the first John Ivinson Award from the British Computer Society at the Royal Society in London.

References

  1. ^ Sue Black University College London, UK.
  2. ^ a b Saving Bletchley Park.
  3. ^ Dr Sue Black: Publications.
  4. ^ "Susan Elizabeth Black". Mathematics Genealogy Project. American Mathematical Society. http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=103014. Retrieved June 15, 2011. 
  5. ^ Black, Sue, Computing ripple effect for software maintenance, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, pages 263–279, 2001. doi:10.1002/smr.233
  6. ^ Dr Sue Black | Committee | BCSWomen, British Computer Society.
  7. ^ Sue Black, Skirts and Ladders.
  8. ^ Brain, Jon, Neglect of Bletchley condemned, BBC News, 24 July 2008.
  9. ^ a b Cellan-Jones, Rory, Bletchley Park's social media war, BBC News, 18 March 2009.
  10. ^ Thomson, Rebecca, Bletchley Park wins crucial funding using Facebook and Twitter, Computer Weekly, 19 March 2009.
  11. ^ Sue Black, Jonathan P. Bowen, and Kelsey Griffin, Can Twitter Save Bletchley Park? In David Bearman and Jennifer Trant (editors), MW2010: Museums and the Web 2010, Denver, USA, 13–17 April 2010. Archives & Museum Informatics.
  12. ^ Dr Sue Black: Press.
  13. ^ Smyth, Chris, Scientists send clear message: save Bletchley Park, The Times, 24 July 2008.
  14. ^ Arthur, Charles, Bletchley Park's codebreakers get glimpse of lottery funding, The Guardian, 29 September 2009.

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