Paul Watson

	Position:	Professor, Director of North East Regional e-Science Centre
	E-mail:	paul.watson ncl.ac.uk
	Telephone:
	Alternate Telephone:
	Fax:
	Mail:	School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU United Kingdom
	Office:	Room 916 , Claremont Tower
	Disclaimer:	Personal webpages

Brief Biography

Paul Watson is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the North East Regional e-Science Centre. He graduated in 1983 with a BSc (I) in Computer Engineering from Manchester University, followed by a PhD in 1986. In the 80s, as a Lecturer at Manchester University, he was a designer of the Alvey Flagship and Esprit EDS systems. From 1990-5 he worked for ICL as a system designer of the Goldrush MegaServer parallel database server, which was released as a product in 1994.

In August 1995 he moved to Newcastle University, where he has been an investigator on research projects worth over £13M. His research interests are in scalable information management. This includes parallel database servers, data-intensive e-science and grid computing.

In total, he has over thirty refereed publications, and three patents. Professor Watson is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a member of the UK Computing Research Committee.

Publications

A list of publications by Paul Watson is available.

Research Groups

Paul is a member of the [ Data-Intensive Systems Research ] research group(s)

Related Organisations