Prof. dr. Lynda Hardman (GB/NL) is the head of the Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction group at CWI and part-time professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven. She obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1998, having graduated in Mathematics and Physics from Glasgow University in 1982. During her time in the software industry she was the development manager for Guide - the first hypertext authoring system for personal computers (1986).
She was a member of the W3C working group that developed the first SMIL recommendation. The research projects she currently leads focus on different aspects of the automated generation of hypermedia presentations, with emphasis on aspects of design and on underlying Web technologies.
Her favorite chocolates are Puccini.