Martyn Amos
{{Short description|British computer scientist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Martyn Amos
| occupation = Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University
| birth_date = 1971
| birth_place = Hexham, Northumberland
| alma_mater = Coventry University, University of Warwick
}}
Martyn Amos is a Professor of Computational Science in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University,http://www.martynamos.org Official homepage working in natural computation, crowd simulation, DNA computing and synthetic biology. He was born in Hexham, Northumberland in 1971, brought up in Heddon-on-the-Wall, and attended school in Ponteland. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Coventry University in 1993 (which included an industrial placement working on the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System), before earning a Ph.D. in DNA computinghttp://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4238/ Ph.D. thesis in 1997, from the University of Warwick. He then held a Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellowship at the University of Liverpool, before taking up permanent academic appointments at the University of Liverpool (2000–2002), the University of Exeter (2002–2006), and Manchester Metropolitan University (2006–2018). He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), and an active contributor to the Speakers for Schools education charity.https://www.speakersforschools.org/speakers/professor-martyn-amos/ Speakers for Schools profile page
Bibliography
- {{cite book
| author = Martyn Amos, (Ed.)
|date=2004
| title = Cellular Computing
| publisher = Oxford University Press (USA)
| isbn = 978-0-19-515539-6
| url = https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cellular-computing-9780195155402?cc=gb&lang=en&
|series=Series in Systems Biology
}}
- {{cite book
| author = Martyn Amos
|date=2005
| title = Theoretical and Experimental DNA Computation
| publisher = Springer
| isbn = 978-3-540-65773-6
| url = https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783540657736
|series=Natural Computing Series
}} — The first general text to cover the whole field.
- {{cite book |author = Martyn Amos
|date = 2006
|title = Genesis Machines - The New Science of Biocomputing
|publisher = Atlantic Books
|isbn = 978-1-84354-224-7
|url = https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/genesis-machines/
}} — A popular science style introduction to the topic.
- {{cite book
| author = Martyn Amos and Ra Page (Eds.)
|date=2014
| title = Beta-Life: Stories from an A-Life Future
| publisher = Comma Press
| isbn = 978-1-90558-365-2
| url = http://commapress.co.uk/books/beta-life/
}} — A collection of "science into fiction" short stories, based on the themes of "unconventional computing" and artificial life, with accompanying afterwords written by consultant scientists.
- {{cite book
| author = Susan Stepney, Steen Rasmussen, and Martyn Amos (Eds.)
|date=2018
| title = Computational Matter
| publisher = Springer
| isbn = 978-3-319-65824-7
| url = https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319658247
|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-65826-1
|series=Natural Computing Series
|s2cid=51705938
}}
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Category:British computer scientists
Category:Alumni of Coventry University
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