Lynda Hardman

Summary

Lynda Hardman obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1998, having graduated in Mathematics and Physics from Glasgow University in 1982. She was the development manager for Guide, the first hypertext authoring system for personal computers (1986). Her work on modelling hypermedia documents heavily influenced the first World Wide Web Consortium Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language recommendation.
She is the European director of LIAMA (http://liama.ia.ac.cn), a research collaboration since 1997 between INRIA (France), CWI and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
She is the director of Amsterdam Data Science (http://amsterdamdatascience.nl), a partner organization whose mission is to strengthen the Data Science and AI ecosystem that spans academia, industry and society in the Amsterdam region.
She was the president of Informatics Europe (2016-2017) (http://www.informatics-europe.org/), a European association of computer science departments to foster the development of quality research and teaching in computer science within Europe.
She was named ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2014 and is a Fellow of the Bristish Computer Society.

Digital Libraries Emerging Technologies Human-Computer Interaction Multimedia Visual Analytics World Wide Web & Web Science

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