Allan Borodin

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Allan Borodin
Born1941 (age 82–83)
Alma mater
ACM Fellow (2014)
Order of Canada (2020)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical computer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Thesis Computational Complexity and the Existence of Complexity Gaps  (1969)
Doctoral advisorJuris Hartmanis
Websitewww.cs.toronto.edu/~bor/

Allan Bertram Borodin CM (born 1941) is a Canadian-American computer scientist who is a professor at the University of Toronto.[2][3]

Biography

Borodin did his undergraduate studies at

Bell Laboratories), he continued his graduate studies at Cornell University, completing a doctorate in 1969 under the supervision of Juris Hartmanis
. He joined the Toronto faculty in 1969 and was promoted to full professor in 1977. He served as department chair from 1980 to 1985, and became University Professor in 2011.[2][3][4]

Awards and honors

Borodin was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1991. In 2008 he won the CRM-Fields-PIMS prize.[3][5] He became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011,[6] and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014 "For contributions to theoretical computer science in complexity, on-line algorithms, resource tradeoffs, and models of algorithmic paradigms."[7] In 2020 he received the Order of Canada.[1]

Selected publications

Research articles
  • Borodin, Allan (1972). "Computational complexity and the existence of complexity gaps".
    S2CID 2387962
    .
  • Borodin, Allan (1977). "On relating time and space to size and depth". .
  • Ben-David, S.; Borodin, A.; .
Books

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Governor General Announces 114 New Appointments to the Order of Canada". 26 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b Borodin named University Professor Archived 2011-09-13 at the Wayback Machine, U. Toronto Computer Science, retrieved 2012-03-17.
  3. ^ a b c Past prizes and awards, PIMS, retrieved 2012-03-17.
  4. ^ Allan Bertram Borodin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Allan Borodin: Recipient of the 2008 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize, retrieved 2012-03-17.
  6. ^ AAAS Members Elected as Fellows in 2011 Archived January 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2012-03-17.
  7. ^ ACM Names Fellows for Innovations in Computing Archived 2015-01-09 at the Wayback Machine, ACM, January 8, 2015, retrieved 2015-01-08.

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