Stephen Emmott
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| Stephen Emmott speaking in 2006
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| Born | Stephen J. Emmott 3 June 1960 [1] |
| Fields | Computational science Bioinformatics |
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| Alma mater | University of York (BSc) University of Stirling (PhD) |
| Thesis | The visual processing of text (1993) |
| Known for | Ten Billion[2][3][4] Towards 2020 Science[5] |
| Notable awards | PhD[6] |
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Stephen J. Emmott (born 3 June 1960)[1] is a Professor and Head of Computational Science at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, where he has worked since 2004. He is also a Visiting Professor at University College London and the University of Oxford.[1][7][8][9][10]
Education
Emmott was educated at the University of York gaining a first-class Bachelor of Science degree in Experimental Psychology in 1987. After graduating, Emmott went on to the University of Stirling where he was awarded a PhD in Computational Neuroscience in 1993.[6]
Career
Emmott starting his career doing postdoctoral research at Bell Labs from 1993–96. Following this he was director and Chief Scientist, Advanced Research Laboratory at NCR Corporation from 1997–2001. He has been working at Microsoft Research since 2004.[11]
Research
Emmott's research interests[12][13][14][15][16][17][18] are in:
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"better understanding nature, from biochemistry to the brain to the biosphere, and in the development of a new framework --new ways of thinking, a new language, new kinds of computational methods, models and tools -- for forming the foundations of a 'new kind' of natural science: a precise, predictive science of complex living systems integrating new theory, models and data."[11]
Ten Billion
Ten Billion[3][2][19] is a 2013 book concerning the topic of human overpopulation. The Guardian commented: "Emmott's short, highly accessible and vividly illustrated book marshals compelling evidence that 'entire global ecosystems are not only capable of suffering a catastrophic tipping point, but are already approaching such a transition'."[20] It was criticized for sloppy research and misrepresentation of scientific findings[21] and amendments were made for the second edition.[22]
References
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- ↑ Stephen Emmott's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
- ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
- ↑ Stephen Emmott's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
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- ↑ Eckart Löhr: Something Radical. A Review of "Ten Billion"
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- ↑ Chris Goodall, Carbon Commentary July 8, 2013: ’10 billion’: a strangely unscientific and misanthropic book
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