Academic

Malcolm Atkinson

British computer scientist

Life: 1943 – present
Born: October 13, 1943
Nationality: United Kingdom

Malcolm Phillip Atkinson 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.