Rate My Professor Mike Atkinson

Emeritus Professor Mike Atkinson holds the position of Emeritus Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Otago's School of Computing within the Sciences Division. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in 1967 and Doctorate in 1970 from Oxford University. His extensive career includes positions at several leading institutions. From 1970 to 1982, he worked in the Department of Computing Mathematics at the University of Cardiff. In 1982, he joined the School of Computer Science at Carleton University in Canada, serving there until 1992 and continuing as Adjunct Research Professor until 1999. From 1992 to 2000, he was Professor of Algorithms in the Schools of Computer Science and Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews, where he also headed the combined School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences from 1994 to 1997. Prior to his appointment at Otago in 2000 as Professor of Computer Science, he held a professorship for one semester in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Auckland.