Gordon Blair (computer scientist)


Gordon Blair is a Distinguished Professor of Distributed Systems in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University. He is also the co-director of the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science.
Gordon Blair is co-author of Distributed systems: concepts and design, a popular textbooks on distributed systems. His research focuses on reflective and adaptive middleware, and model-driven engineering. His research, with over 300 papers published, has been cited over 19,000 times. He is joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Internet Services and Applications.

Education

Gordon Blair received a BSc and PhD in Computer Science, in 1980 and 1983, respectively, and both from Strathclyde University.