Martin C. Atkins martin at mca-ltd.com

I am currently the technical director of Mission Critical Applications Limited, the company that I started with my wife, Divya, in 1999.

Education

• D.Phil. (Computer Science) - Department of Computer Science, University of York, U.K.
  
  Implementation Techniques for Object-Oriented Systems
• B.A. (Maths) - Department of Mathematics, University of York, U.K.
• Sandhurst School, Owlsmoor Road, Sandhurst, Berkshire, U.K.
• St. Michael's C. of E. Primary School, Sandhurst, Berkshire, U.K.

My Background

• My computing experiences
  
• or see my experiences organised by thread

Professional Interests

• Linux
• Real-time systems
• Embedded systems
• Operating systems (Real-time, Embedded, and unusual!)
• Virtual machines
• Dependability (especially security and safety)
  
• Networks
• Language design (especially type-systems)
• Multimedia
  

Other (hopefully useful!) Stuff

• My unofficial Ten15 homepage
• My links
• Some useful software

Other Interests

• Badminton
• Music (mostly Western Classical)
• Photography
• Reading
• Gilbert and Sullivan (music, staging, and stage lighting)

Publications

1. The Measurement and Valid Use of Utility in Adaptive Real-Time Systems, D.Prasad, A. Burns and M.Atkins, Real-Time Systems Jounal, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 25, Issue 2-3, pp 277-296, September - October 2003.
2. On defining a 'hurt' metric to measure dissatisfaction with products, Divya Prasad, Martin Atkins, John McDermid and Ian Wand, in Proceedings of ESCOM ENCRESS '98, Rome (May 1998).
3. Global Synchronisation in Linda, Paul Butcher, Alan Wood and Martin Atkins, CONCURRENCY: Practice and Experience 6(6), pp 505-516 (September 1994).
4. Principles of Object-Oriented Systems, M. C. Atkins and A. W. Brown, Chapter 39 in the Software Engineer’s Reference Book, edited by John A. McDermid. Published by Butterworth-Heinemann, London. ISBN 0-7506-1040-9. 1032pp. March 1991.
5. Implementation Techniques for Object-Oriented Systems, M. C. Atkins, D.Phil Thesis, University of York, Department of Computer Science, 1998.
6. The Active Deallocation of Objects in Object-Oriented Systems, M. C. Atkins and L. R. Nackman, SOFTWARE - Practice and Experience 18(11), pp 1073-1089 (November 1988). Also published as IBM Research Report RC 13091 (November 1987). An extended version of this paper also became chapter 5, "Active Deallocation of Objects", in my thesis.
7. The Composers’ Desktop Project, M. C. Atkins et al., in Proceedings of the 1987 International Computer Music Conference, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (August 1987).