Malcolm Crowe

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Malcolm Kenneth Crowe
Born (1948-01-13) January 13, 1948 (age 76)[citation needed]
Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Occupationcomputer scientist
Known forPyrrho RDBMS
Academic work
DisciplineComputer science
Main interestsPhilosophy[1]
Notable worksPyrrho DBMS[citation needed]
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Malcolm Kenneth Crowe is an Irish computer scientist and mathematician who retired to become professor emeritus at the University of West of Scotland after 46 years of service.[2][citation needed]

Biography[edit]

So when I consider why academics do research, I think of participation in the joy of discovery and debate, the creation of new knowledge, and the timeless academe.

Crowe, Malcolm[1]

Crowe was born in Dublin on 13 January 1948.[citation needed] Studies in the final year of school encouraged an interest in philosophy.[1] He gained a 1st class honours degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1969.[3][citation needed]

Crowe gained employment as a lecturer at Paisley College of Technology in Scotland in 1972, remaining with the institution through its transition to Paisley University in 1992 and finally to the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) in 2007.[citation needed]

His D.Phil. in Mathematics was awarded from Oxford University in 1979.[4]

Although trained as a mathematician Crowe's interest turned increasingly towards computing.[citation needed] He became Head of Computing in Paisley in 1985, introducing an interpretivist degree in information systems, resulting in a "culture clash".[4]

Crowe was involved in the European Strategic Program on Research in Information Technology (ESPIRIT) in the 1980s and 1990s.[citation needed]

2006 saw him develop the Pyrrho lightweight database management system.[5][6] UWS set up licensing so it could be commercially exploited but in practice has been utilised in an educational role, with the European sponsored DBTechNET initiative and as an addendum to the 5th edition of UWS's Connolly and Begg book "Database Systems, A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation, and Management".[7][8][9] Crowe retired from UWS in 2018 after a working life of 46 years at the same institution.[2] He has continued his participation in computer science with 2019 seeing a version 7 of his PyrrhoDB having an alpha release, development of a new Database Management System, StrongDBMS.

Pyrrho DBMS[edit]

Crowe developed the Pyrrho Database Management System (DBMS) in the 2000s to explore optimistic concurrency control and other features applicable to relational databases.[5]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Atkinson, John; Crowe, M. K. (2006). Interdisciplinary research : diverse approaches in science, technology, health and society. Chichester, England & Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. OCLC 65617525. OL 18207825W.
  • Crowe, Malcolm K. (1996). "The verses of Heraclitus of Ephesus". The Systemist. 18. UK Systems Society: 161–176. Archived from the original on 24 October 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  • —— (2015). The Pyrrho Book (PDF). University of the West of Scotland. ISBN 978-1-903978-50-4.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Academe". cis.uws.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 May 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b "University of the West of Scotland". Facebook. 1 July 2018. Archived from the original on 21 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Malcolm Crowe's Home Page". cis.uws.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2 August 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  4. ^ a b Atkinson & Crowe (2006), p. vii.
  5. ^ a b Laiho, Martti; Laux, Fritz (5 October 2011). On SQL Concurrency Technologies — - for Application Developers (PDF). DBTechNet (Report). p. 50. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 November 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  6. ^ "The Pyrrho DBMS". pyrrhodb.uws.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  7. ^ Laiho, Martti; Laux, Fritz; Petrov, Ilia; Dervos, Dimitris (9 September 2017). "2.6 Pyrrho DBMS". SQL Stored Routines - Procedural Extensions of SQL and External Routines in Transactional Context (PDF). DBTechNet (Report). Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 February 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  8. ^ "DBTechNet". DBTechNet. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  9. ^ Connolly, Thomas M.; Begg, Carolyn E. (2010) [1995]. Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management (5 ed.). Pearson. ISBN 9780321523068. E. Introduction to Pyrrho—A Liteweight RDBMS.
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