Education
Black graduated from London"s South Bank University in 1993 and earned her Doctor of Philosophy there as well in 2001.
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Sue Black is a Senior Research Associate at University College London, England. She was previously Head of the Department of Information and Software Systems at the University of Westminster, London. She 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 from destruction due to lack of funding.
The ripple effect is a term within the field of software metrics used with respect to a complexity measure. Black was the founding chair of the British Computer Society Specialist Group BCSWomen and is an advocate of women in computing.
Black runs a blog to help raise awareness of and funding for Bletchley Park, the United Kingdom World World War II centre for decrypting enemy messages. She used other Web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook and Twitter for this purpose.
At the end of 2015, she published a book about the process, Saving Bletchley Park, initially funded via Unbound.
She has appeared on British Broadcasting Corporation television, radio and in press articles
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In 2009, Black won the first John Ivinson Award from the British Computer Society at the Royal Society in London. In 2011, Black won the Pepsi Cola Women"s Inspiration Award. In 2012, she was listed as one of Datamation"s 10 Women in Technical Who Give Back. In 2015, Black was identified as the 7th Most Influential Women in United Kingdom Information Technology 2015, by Computer Weekly. Black was also one of the 30 women identified in the British Computer Society"s Women in Information Technology Campaign in 2014, who were then featured in the e-book "Women in Information Technology: Inspiring the next generation" produced by the British Computer Society. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to technology.
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United Kingdom
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire Plainlist| * John Ivinson Award (2009) * PepsiCo Women's Inspiration Award (2011) * Order of the British Empire (2016) In 2009, Black won the first John Ivinson Award from the British Computer Society at the Royal Society in London. In 2011, Black won the PepsiCo Women's Inspiration Award. In 2012, she was listed as one of Datamation's 10 Women in Tech Who Give Back. In 2015, Black was identified as the 7th Most Influential Women in UK IT 2015, by Computer Weekly. Black was also one of the 30 women identified in the British Computer Society's Women in IT Campaign in 2014, who were then featured in the e-book "Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation" produced by the BCS. She was appointed (OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to technology.Officer of the Order of the British Empire Plainlist| * John Ivinson Award (2009) * PepsiCo Women's Inspiration Award (2011) * Order of the British Empire (2016) In 2009, Black won the first John Ivinson Award from the British Computer Society at the Royal Society in London. In 2011, Black won the PepsiCo Women's Inspiration Award. In 2012, she was listed as one of Datamation's 10 Women in Tech Who Give Back. In 2015, Black was identified as the 7th Most Influential Women in UK IT 2015, by Computer Weekly. Black was also one of the 30 women identified in the British Computer Society's Women in IT Campaign in 2014, who were then featured in the e-book "Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation" produced by the BCS. She was appointed (OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to technology.