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About Michael H. Albert
- Michael Henry Albert (born September 20, 1962) is a mathematician and computer scientist, originally from Canada, and currently a professor and the head of the computer science department at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
- His varied research interests include combinatorics and combinatorial game theory. He received his B.Math in 1981 from the University of Waterloo.
- In that year Albert received the Rhodes Scholarship, and he completed his D.
- Phil.
- in 1984 at the University of Oxford.
- He then returned to the University of Waterloo.
- From 1987 to 1996 he was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Albert has been at the University of Otago since 1998. Together with J.P.
- Grossman and Richard Nowakowski, Albert invented the game Clobber.
- Albert has also contributed to the Combinatorial Game Suite game analysis software, and is a coauthor of Lessons in Play: An Introduction to Combinatorial Game Theory.
- Another significant topic of his research has been permutation patterns. Albert is a keen bridge player, and has won tournaments internationally.
