Norman Paton

Norman Paton
Norman Paton
Born	Norman William Paton
Alma mater	University of Aberdeen
Known for	Active databases; Object databases;
	Scientific career
Fields	Information integration; Query processing; Life science data management;
Institutions	University of Manchester; Heriot-Watt University; University of Aberdeen;
Thesis	A Prolog implementation of an object-oriented database system (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Peter M. D. Gray
Website	www.cs.man.ac.uk/~norm; www.manchester.ac.uk/research/norman.paton;

Norman William Paton is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK where he co-leads the Information Management Group (IMG) with Carole Goble.