1 April 2019 - Malcolm Atkinson Sub-Title Equipping data-intensive research communities to do better Abstract Download is prevalent in today’s research, as researchers collect the data they use and refine their methods of using it. But it leads to lack of structure, reliability and sustainability, just as ‘go to’ did 50 years ago. The challenge is to find a better way of using data which still leaves researchers in control. This leads to two sub-goals: Devising and validating more structured alternatives, and Finding paths that encourage incremental adoption in research communities. Some first socio-technical steps towards these goals in the DARE project suggest they may be achievable. Help is needed to steer that research journey. Volunteers welcome. Biography Malcolm Atkinson, PhD, FBCS, FRSE, has spent 50 years improving our capacity through education and research to enable individuals, organisation and society to make best use of their data. He has worked in seven universities and three companies. He became a professor in 1983 and led the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow to the top levels of teaching and research assessment. He has worked on databases and programming languages, large-scale and long-lived applications, since 1970. Since becoming the Director of NeSC, the e-Science Institute and UK e-Science Envoy, he has campaigned for data-intensive methods in the context of global federations of autonomous organisations. This needs frameworks, intellectual ramps and tools to help all roles in the data and federation lifecycles. Those frameworks need to deliver affordable and attainable data transport and adequate data protection. He returned to Edinburgh in 2001. He leads data-intensive research, focusing on socio-technical architectures to meet such requirements. He has received research funding continuously since 1979 and EU research funding since 1989. He currently is PI on two EU H2020 projects. He has had 19 PhD students graduate and currently supervises three. Apr 01 2019 14.00 - 15.00 1 April 2019 - Malcolm Atkinson Download considered harmful IF 4.31/33
1 April 2019 - Malcolm Atkinson Sub-Title Equipping data-intensive research communities to do better Abstract Download is prevalent in today’s research, as researchers collect the data they use and refine their methods of using it. But it leads to lack of structure, reliability and sustainability, just as ‘go to’ did 50 years ago. The challenge is to find a better way of using data which still leaves researchers in control. This leads to two sub-goals: Devising and validating more structured alternatives, and Finding paths that encourage incremental adoption in research communities. Some first socio-technical steps towards these goals in the DARE project suggest they may be achievable. Help is needed to steer that research journey. Volunteers welcome. Biography Malcolm Atkinson, PhD, FBCS, FRSE, has spent 50 years improving our capacity through education and research to enable individuals, organisation and society to make best use of their data. He has worked in seven universities and three companies. He became a professor in 1983 and led the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow to the top levels of teaching and research assessment. He has worked on databases and programming languages, large-scale and long-lived applications, since 1970. Since becoming the Director of NeSC, the e-Science Institute and UK e-Science Envoy, he has campaigned for data-intensive methods in the context of global federations of autonomous organisations. This needs frameworks, intellectual ramps and tools to help all roles in the data and federation lifecycles. Those frameworks need to deliver affordable and attainable data transport and adequate data protection. He returned to Edinburgh in 2001. He leads data-intensive research, focusing on socio-technical architectures to meet such requirements. He has received research funding continuously since 1979 and EU research funding since 1989. He currently is PI on two EU H2020 projects. He has had 19 PhD students graduate and currently supervises three. Apr 01 2019 14.00 - 15.00 1 April 2019 - Malcolm Atkinson Download considered harmful IF 4.31/33
