Allan Bertram Borodin (born 1941) is a Canadian-American computer scientist who is a professor at the University of Toronto.Borodin named University Professor , U. Toronto Computer Science, retrieved 2012-03-17.Past prizes and awards, PIMS, retrieved 2012-03-17.
Biography Borodin did his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1963. After earning a master's degree at the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1966 (while at the same time working part time as a programmer 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.
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.Allan Borodin: Recipient of the 2008 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize, retrieved 2012-03-17. He became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011,AAAS Members Elected as Fellows in 2011 , retrieved 2012-03-17. 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."ACM Names Fellows for Innovations in Computing , ACM, January 8, 2015, retrieved 2015-01-08. In 2020 he received the Order of Canada.
Selected publications Research articles
Books
See also Gap theorem Online algorithms Computational Complexity
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External links Home Page at University of Toronto