I am currently the technical director of Mission Critical Applications
Limited, the company that I started with my wife, Divya, in
1999.
Education
My Background
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
Other Interests
- Badminton
- Music (mostly Western Classical)
- Photography
- Reading
- Gilbert and Sullivan (music, staging, and stage
lighting)
- 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.
- 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).
- Global Synchronisation in
Linda, Paul Butcher, Alan Wood and Martin Atkins,
CONCURRENCY: Practice and Experience 6(6), pp 505-516
(September 1994).
- 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.
- Implementation Techniques for Object-Oriented
Systems, M. C. Atkins, D.Phil Thesis, University of York,
Department of Computer Science, 1998.
- 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.
- The Composers’ Desktop Project, M. C. Atkins
et al., in Proceedings of the 1987 International Computer
Music Conference, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (August
1987).