Carole Goble facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Carole Goble CBE FREng FBCS
Born	Carole Anne Goble (1961-04-10) 10 April 1961 (age 64)
Nationality	British
Education	Maidstone School for Girls
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Known for	myGrid Semantic Grid Open PHACTS Apache Taverna Software Sustainability Institute The Seven Deadly Sins of Bioinformatics
Spouse(s)	Ian Cottam ​ (m. 2003)​
Awards	Jim Gray e-Science Award (2008) Karen Spärck Jones lecture (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Semantic web Bioinformatics e-Science Social computing Workflows
Institutions	University of Manchester Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Academic advisors	Alan Rector Tom Kilburn

Carole Anne Goble (born April 10, 1961) is a smart British professor. She teaches Computer Science at the University of Manchester. She leads important projects like myGrid, BioCatalogue, and myExperiment. She also helps lead the Information Management Group.

Her Education

Carole Goble went to Maidstone School for Girls. This school is now called Invicta Grammar School. She studied at the University of Manchester. There, she earned her degree in computing and information systems. She studied from 1979 to 1982.

Her Amazing Work

Professor Goble is very interested in how computers can help scientists. She works on things like grid computing and the Semantic Web. These are ways to organize and share huge amounts of information online. She also studies e-Science, which is about using computers for scientific research.

Her work helps scientists manage information, especially in areas like medical informatics and bioinformatics. Bioinformatics uses computers to understand biological data, like DNA. She finds new ways to use technology to solve problems for scientists.

Her research has been published in many important science magazines. These include Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics. She also writes for Nature Genetics and Drug Discovery Today.

Carole Goble started working at the University of Manchester in 1985. She became a full professor in 2000. She helps guide several science groups and committees. She was also part of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

She even helped start a company called Cerebra. This company used her ideas about the Semantic Web.

Awards and Honours

Carole Goble at Buckingham Palace with Douglas Kell after receiving her CBE.

Professor Goble has won many awards for her work. In 2008, she received the first Jim Gray e-Science Award. This award recognized her efforts to help scientists use large amounts of data. She helped create a tool called Apache Taverna for this purpose.

She also won awards for her research papers. These include awards from the IEEE and the ACM. In 2002, Sun Microsystems honored her for her achievements. They recognized her work in advancing life science computing.

She has given many important speeches at conferences around the world. These speeches cover topics like digital curation and artificial intelligence.

In 2014, she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). This is a high honor in the UK for her services to science. She was also chosen as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2010. In 2018, she received an honorary degree from Maastricht University.