KEYNOTE SPEAKERProfessor Malcolm Atkinson PhD, FBCS, FRSEDirector of the e-Science Institute |
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| Malcolm Atkinson is Director of the e-Science Institute.
He is the UK e Science Envoy and plays a leading role in OMII-UK,
and is on the advisory boards of GOSC, NCeSS, Baltic Grid and GEON.
He leads training and education in the two EU-funded projects EGEE-II
and ICEAGE project, International Collaboration to Extend and Advance
Grid Education. These two projects have organised the ISSGC06. He
is a member of the Global Grid Forum Steering Group and Data Area
Director for GGF. He began his career in computing in 1966. He has worked at seven universities: Glasgow, Pennsylvania, Edinburgh, UEA, Cambridge, Rangoon and Lancaster; and for two companies: Sun Microsystems (at SunLabs in California) and O2 (an Object-Oriented DB company in its early years in Versailles). He led the development of the Department of Computing Science in Glasgow and is now Professor of e Science in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He has more than 130 publications. He has taken leading roles in national strategic research and infrastructure committees. |
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