Name Prof. M. H. Williams
Position Part-time Professor of Computer Science
Address School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS Scotland
Email mhw@macs.hw.ac.uk
Phone +44 131 451 3430
Fax +44 131 451 3327
Research Interests: Web-based Databases and Information Systems, Personalisation, Pervasive Systems, Active Databases, Deductive Object Oriented Databases, Multimedia Databases, Parallel and Distributed Databases, Spatial Databases, Healthcare Information Systems
Acad. Qualifications:BSc (1964), BSc(Hons)(1965),PhD in Physics (1971), DSc in Computer Science (1994).
Employment: end 1967 - 69: Physicist in Antarctic Expedition
1970 - 77: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Rhodes University
1977 - Aug 1980: Professor of Computer Science and acting head of department(1976-77
and 1979-80) at Rhodes University
Sept 1980 - date: Professor of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University.
Head of Department 1980 - 1988 and 2002 - 2003.
Research Grants: EU - Since 1989 participated in 15 research projects under Esprit2 (EDS), Esprit 3(EDS2, MIPS, Pythagoras), IST FP4 (Mercury), IST FP5 (Youngster), AIM (Telemedicine), Telematics (FEST, Trilogy, HERMES, CHIN), Networks (ACT-NET) Growth (NuPulse), and IST FP6 (Daidalos, REWERSE)
SERC/EPSRC - 14 research projects since 1985
Publications: over 250 papers, roughly half in journals and the rest in published conference proceedings. Committees: EU committee on Telemedicine, SERC Systems Engineering Committee, several Alvey committees, the Inter-University Computing Committee (IUCC), the Conference of Professors of Computer Science, EPSRC IT College, Distinguished Dissertation Committee, etc.
Conference PCs/organising cttees: VLDB, EDBT, RIDS, BNCOD, Data Engineering,SIGKME,
etc. Editorial Boards: IEE Proc - Software, Quaestiones Informaticae, University
Computing