Malcolm Atkinson
| Malcolm Philip Atkinson | |
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Malcolm P. Atkinson
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| Born |
13 October 1943 Cornwall, UK |
| Residence | UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields |
Computer Science e-Science |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Alma mater |
University of Cambridge (BA 1966) University of Cambridge (Diploma in Computer Science 1967) University of Cambridge (PhD 1974) |
| Doctoral students | Chee Sun Liew, Yin Chen, Fan Zhu & Ole Weidner |
Professor Malcolm Phillip Atkinson (born 13 October 1943, Cornwall, UK) is a Professor of e-Science, in the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. He is known for his work in the areas of object-oriented databases, database systems, software engineering and e-Science and was the UK's first e-Science Envoy (2006–2011) and the Director of the e-Science Institute and National e-Science Centre, University of Edinburgh.
Atkinson obtained his first degree from the University of Cambridge in 1966, followed by a Diploma in computer science in 1967. After three years research and teaching at Lancaster University he returned to Cambridge and was awarded his PhD in 1974. He then held academic posts in Burma, Cambridge, East Anglia and Edinburgh, being appointed to a senior lectureship at Edinburgh in 1983. He was a visiting professor at the Univ. of Pennsylvania during 1983–84 and was appointed to a professorship in Computer Science at the University of Glasgow in 1984. He was head of Dept. of Computing Science from 1986 to 1990, following which he spent nine months on sabbatical at INRIA near Paris working with the O2 group. Malcolm then worked for Sun Microsystems (at SunLabs in California) before moving to the University of Edinburgh in 2001 as Professor in the School of Informatics.
He has more than 100 publications listed on DBLP.
In 1994, he was elected as a fellow in the Royal Society of Edinburgh
A call for applications for the role of e-Science Senior Research Fellow for the e-Science Core Programme was issued by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in 2005. Malcolm Atkinson was the successful candidate and started his work as the e-Science Envoy on 1 April 2006 under EPSRC Grant No EP/D079829/1. Consequently, he stepped down as the director of the UK National e-Science Centre. The director post was taken up by Prof. Peter Clarke who held it until August 2009.
He founded the e-Science Institute in August 2001, as a central focus for the e-Science community in the UK. Its mission was to stimulate the creation of new insights in e-Science and computing science by bringing together international experts and enabling them to successfully address significant and diverse challenges.
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