Norman William Paton is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK[5][8][9][10][11] where he co-leads the Information Management Group (IMG)[12] with Carole Goble.
Paton was educated at the University of Aberdeen where he was awarded a first class Bachelor of Science degree in Computing Science in 1986 and a PhD in 1989 for research into object-oriented database systems using Prolog[13][14][15] supervised by Peter Gray.
[21][22] His research has been funded by the EPSRC,[23] the BBSRC[24] and the European Union.
Paton has also been active in the Open Grid Forum (OGF),[25] Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI)[3] and the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (MCISB).
[24] Paton has taught on several database courses at undergraduates and postgraduate level.