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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. == Professional career == 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.〔Who, Where and When: The History & Constitution of the University of Glasgow http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_61834_en.pdf〕 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.〔Publication of Malcolm P. Atkinson on DBLP http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/a/Atkinson:Malcolm_P=.html〕 In 1994, he was elected as a fellow 〔List of current fellows http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/lists/fellows.pdf of the Royal Society of Edinburgh〕 in the Royal Society of Edinburgh 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Malcolm Atkinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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