Michael J. Dinneen is an

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and

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

working as a senior lecturer at the

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, New Zealand. He is deputy director of the

Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) is a collaboration between Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the research firms AT&T, Bell Labs, Applied Communication Sciences, and NEC. It was founded in ...

. He does research in

combinatorial optimization Combinatorial optimization is a subfield of mathematical optimization that consists of finding an optimal object from a finite set of objects, where the set of feasible solutions is discrete or can be reduced to a discrete set. Typical combina ...

distributed computing Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers. The components of a distributed system commu ...

, and

graph theory In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of ''graph (discrete mathematics), graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of ''Vertex (graph ...

. Dinneen was educated at the

University of Idaho The University of Idaho (U of I, or UIdaho) is a public land-grant research university in Moscow, Idaho, United States. Established in 1889 and opened three years later, it was the state's sole university for 71 years, until 1963. The un ...

(BS),

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, and

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay, British Columbia, Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1903 as Victoria College, British Columbia, Victoria Col ...

(MS and PhD). He worked at the

Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development Laboratory, laboratories of the United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, United States Department of Energy ...

before moving to New Zealand and the University of Auckland.

Selected bibliography

* Michael J. Dinneen, Georgy Gimel'farb, and Mark C. Wilson. ''Introduction to Algorithms, Data Structures and Formal Languages''. Pearson (Education New Zealand), 2004. (pages 253). * Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, and Chi-Kou Shu. Computing a glimpse of randomness. "Experimental Mathematics", 11(2):369-378, 2002. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~cristian/Calude361_370.pdf * Joshua J. Arulanandham, Cristian S. Calude, and Michael J. Dinneen. A fast natural algorithm for searching. "Theoretical Computer Science", 320(1):3-13, 2004. http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0304397504001914 * Michael J. Dinneen, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, André Nies (eds.). Computation, Physics and Beyond - International Workshop on Theoretical Computer Science, WTCS 2012, Dedicated to Cristian S. Calude on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Auckland, New Zealand, February 21–24, 2012, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7160, Springer 2012. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642276538

References

External links

Michael J. Dinneen Home Page

CDMTCS at the University of Auckland

List of publications of Michael J. Dinneen at DBLP
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