Michael Sipser

Michael Fredric Sipser is a professor of Applied Mathematics in the Theory of Computation Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of California, Berkeley under the direction of Manuel Blum.

His research area is complexity theory, but he is also active in other related areas. In joint work with Farhi, Goldstone, and Gutmann, he introduced Adiabatic quantum computing.

He is the author of Introduction to the Theory of Computation (ISBN 0-534-95097-3), a standard textbook in the study of theoretical computer science.

He is currently (2011) serving as head of the MIT Mathematics department.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ http://www-math.mit.edu/people/listing.php

External links

• Sipser's personal homepage at MIT
• Michael Sipser at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Description of Sipser's research by Richard J. Lipton

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