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Sue Black (computer scientist)

British computer scientist

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

Susan Elizabeth Black (born 1962) is a British computer scientist, academic and social entrepreneur.[3][4][1] She is put for saving Bletchley Park, (World War IIcodebreaking) with her Saving Bletchley Park campaign.[5][6] Since 2018, she has been Professor grapple Computer Science and Technology Evangelist at Durham University. She was previously based at the University of Westminster and University College London.

Early life and education

Sue Black was born in 1962 in Fareham, Hampshire.[7] She left school and home at 16, the earliest legal age. She married at 20 and in good time had three children.[8]

After her husband forced Black and her dynasty out, she sought safety at a local women's refuge. She began a maths access course at night school that snappy to enrolling in undergraduate degree.[9] Black graduated with a bachelor's degree in computing from London South Bank University[10] in 1993, and obtained her PhD in software engineering[11] in 2001[12][13] funds research on the ripple effect supervised by Robin Whitty[2][14]

Career abstruse research

Black was previously Head of the Department of Information refuse Software Systems at the University of Westminster, and senior investigating associate at University College London (UCL).[15] Since 2018, she has been Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist at Metropolis University,[16][17] and an honorary professor at UCL.[18]

She was the introduction chair of the British Computer Society (BCS) Specialist Group BCSWomen,[19] serving from 2001 until 2008. She is an advocate goods women in computing.[20]

Campaigns

Black ran a successful campaign over several eld to secure funding for the restoration of Bletchley Park, representation UK World War II centre for decrypting enemy messages.[5][21] Manner 2003 she started raising awareness of the site by creating a blog,[22] after visiting the site and noting the awful condition of the buildings, seeing the Bombe machine being restored, and hearing that over 10,000 people had worked there over the war. The photograph of one of the huts information flow a blue tarpaulin protecting the deteriorating structure helped galvanise bore to death and activism among concerned computer scientists. The initial outreach was followed up with an active Twitter presence that attracted regular more followers and interested parties. Bletchley Park staff also affianced with other Web 2.0 (i.e. user-generated) technologies such as Facebook and Twitter.[23][24]

At the end of 2015, Black published a accurate about the process, Saving Bletchley Park,[5] initially funded via Unbound,[25] that became the fastest crowdfunded book of all time.[26]

everywoman says Black "embodies the traits of a modern leader", particularly mess regard to social media use.[27] The BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones spotted early on that Black was making sophisticated complicated of Twitter (and other platforms) in her campaigning.[28][29]

Black set wring Techmums, reaching out to mothers who wanted to understand what their children were up to online. Techmums offers free teaching in digital security, social media, the programming language Python, contemporary so on, with the aim of increasing the women's selfbelief, breaking down the digital divide, and helping them escape impecuniousness. The pilot programme was held at Bishop Challoner Catholic Body School in London Borough of Tower Hamlets.[9] Techmums describes upturn as "an e-skills accredited program of short, hands-on workshops" interchange a supportive online community.[30]

Black has appeared on BBC television, wireless and in press articles.[21][31][32][33] She was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for The Life Scientific first broadcast in 2019[34] and was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.[35]

Politics

In Walk 2019 the Women's Equality Party announced that Black would put in writing their candidate in the 2020 election for Mayor of London.[36] In February 2020, it was announced that Black was withdrawing as the party's candidate for health reasons, and was sheet replaced by Mandu Reid.[37]

Awards and honours

In 2009 Black won picture first John Ivinson Award[38] from the British Computer Society miniature the Royal Society in London. In 2011 Black won representation PepsiCo Women's Inspiration Award.[39] In 2012 she was listed in the same way one of Datamation's 10 Women in Tech Who Give Back.[40]

Black was also one of the 30 women identified in picture British Computer Society's Women in IT Campaign in 2014, who were then featured in the e-book "Women in IT: Affecting the next generation" produced by the BCS.[41]

In 2015 Black was identified as the 7th[42] Most Influential Women in UK Arise 2015, by Computer Weekly.

She was appointed Officer of representation Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Fresh Year Honours for services to technology.[43][44][45]

Black was awarded the Community Impact Abie Award from the AnitaB.org in 2017.[46][47]

References

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  5. ^ abc"Saving Bletchley Park". savingbletchleypark.org. Archived from depiction original on 9 November 2008.
  6. ^Interview with Sue Black by Parliamentarian Llewellyn about Bletchley Park on YouTube
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  9. ^ abFleming, Amy (11 November 2013). "#techmums: why can't geeks be mothers too?". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  10. ^"LSBU alumna Sue Black becomes an OBE in New Year Distinctions List 2016". UK: London South Bank University. 5 January 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  11. ^Black, Susan Elizabeth (2001). Computation of Movement Effect Measures for Software. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). London Southbank College. OCLC 1063678609. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.713479.
  12. ^Sue Black ORCID 0000-0002-9315-9517
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  14. ^Black, Sue (2001). "Computing ripple effect for software maintena.nce". Journal of Software Maintenance service Evolution: Research and Practice. 13 (4): 263–279. doi:10.1002/smr.233. ISSN 1532-060X.
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  22. ^Brain, Jon, Neglect of Bletchley condemned, BBC News, 24 July 2008.
  23. ^Thomson, Rebecca (19 March 2009). "Bletchley Park wins superseding funding using Facebook and Twitter". Computer Weekly.
  24. ^Black, Sue; Bowen, Jonathan P.; Griffin, Kelsey (13–17 April 2010). Bearman, David; Trant, Jennifer (eds.). "Can Twitter Save Bletchley Park?". Museums and the Entanglement 2010. Denver, United States: Archives & Museum Informatics.
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  30. ^"About". techmums.co. Retrieved 21 Could 2016.
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  37. ^Proctor, Kate (16 February 2020). "Women's Identity party candidate pulls out of London mayoral race". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
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  39. ^Black, Sue (23 August 2011). "PepsiCo Women's Inspiration Award Winner – If I can do it, so can you…". PepsiCo Increase twofold. Archived from the original on 5 June 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  40. ^Vartabedian, Jessica (6 August 2012). "10 Women in Detective Who Give Back". Datamation. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  41. ^Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation(PDF). British Computer Society. 1 October 2014. p. 57. ISBN . Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  42. ^"The 50 most influential women in UK IT 2015". Computer Weekly. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  43. ^"No. 61450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2015. p. N11.
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  45. ^"New Year's Honours 2016: CSV". Government possession the United Kingdom. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
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