Norman Paton

Norman William Paton is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK^{[5][8][9][10][11]} where he co-leads the Information Management Group (IMG)^[12] with Carole Goble.

Norman Paton
Born	Norman William Paton
Alma mater	University of Aberdeen
Known for	Active databases[1] Object databases
Scientific career
Fields	Information integration Query processing[1] Life science data management[2][3][4][5]
Institutions	University of Manchester Heriot-Watt University University of Aberdeen
Thesis	A Prolog implementation of an object-oriented database system (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Peter M. D. Gray[6][7]
Website	www.cs.man.ac.uk/~norm www.manchester.ac.uk/research/norman.paton

Education

Paton was educated at the University of Aberdeen where he was awarded a first class Bachelor of Science degree in Computing Science in 1986 and a PhD in 1989 for research into object-oriented database systems using Prolog^[13][14][15] supervised by Peter Gray.^[6]

Research

Paton's research interests are currently in distributed information management including dataspaces,^[16][17][18] query processing in wireless sensor networks,^[19][20] autonomic computing, workflow management, and data management for systems biology.^[21][22] His research has been funded by the EPSRC,^[23] the BBSRC^[24] and the European Union.

Paton has also been active in the Open Grid Forum (OGF),^[25] Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI)^[3] and the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (MCISB).^[24]

Teaching

Paton has taught on several database courses at undergraduates and postgraduate level.

Administration

Paton has had a variety of roles in the School of Computer Science including director of the research school, director of teaching strategy, and head of school from November 2008^[26] to November 2011.^[27]