Mike Paterson

Michael Stewart Paterson, known as Mike Paterson, is a British computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick, where he moved in 1971 after three years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He took his doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 1967 under the supervision of David Park. He later directed the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications and chaired the computer science department in 2005. Paterson is an expert in theoretical computer science with more than a hundred publications, especially on the design and analysis of algorithms and on computational complexity. His work on distributed computing with Fischer and Lynch earned the Dijkstra Prize in 2001, and he received the EATCS Award in 2006, a Lester R. Ford Award in 2010 and election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.