Mike Paterson

Mike Paterson
Nationality British
Fields Computer Science
Institutions University of Warwick
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Thesis Equivalence Problems in a Model of Computation (1967)
Doctoral advisor David Park
Doctoral students William McColl
Ian Parberry
Leslie Valiant
Haris Aziz
Known for Algorithms and Complexity
Notable awards Dijkstra Prize (2001)

Michael Stewart "Mike" Paterson, is a British Computer Scientist, who was the director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications at the University of Warwick until 2007, and chair of the Department of Computer Science in 2005.

He received his doctorate from Cambridge University in 1967, under the supervision of David Park.[1] He spent three years at MIT and moved to University of Warwick in 1971.

Paterson is an expert on theoretical computer science with more than 100 publications, especially the design and analysis of algorithms and computational complexity. Paterson’s distinguished career was recognised with the EATCS Award in 2006 and a workshop in honour of his 66th birthday in 2008, including contributions of several Turing Award and Gödel Prize laureates. For his work on distributed computing with Fischer and Lynch, he received the Dijkstra Prize in 2001, and his work with Dyer and Goldberg on counting graph homomorphisms received a best paper award at the ICALP conference in 2006. Mike Paterson received a Lester R. Ford Award in 2010.[2] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2001 and been president of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). According to EATCS president Maurice Nivat, Paterson played a great role in the late 1960s in the recognition of computer science as a science, “and that theoretical computer science, which is very close to mathematics but distinct in its motivation and inspiration, is indeed a challenging and fruitful field of research.” [3]

He is also an enthusiastic mountaineer.

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References & recent publications

  1. SIGACT genealogy datase
  2. Paterson, Mike; Zwick, Uri (2009). "Overhang". Amer. Math. Monthly 116 (1): 19–44. doi:10.4169/193009709x469797.
  3. Maurice Nivat, About the birth of Theoretical Computer Science, abstract of talk held at Paterson’s 66th birthday.

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