{"id":10,"date":"2010-10-15T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T12:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrfellows.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2018-10-16T02:39:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:39:42","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mike-fellows.net\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Ralph Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n“We are better than Moore\u2019s Law.<\/em>
\n We can run a new algorithm on a<\/em>
\n 20-year old machine and win!”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Professor Michael Fellows<\/strong>
\nElite Professor of Computer Science
\nDepartment of Informatics
\nUniversity of Bergen
\nBergen, 5020 Norway
\nHonorary Professor
\nRoyal Holloway,
\nUniversity of London
\nDepartment of Computer ScienceEmail:<\/strong> michael.fellows@uib.no<\/a>Visiting Address:<\/strong> HIB \u2013Thorm\u00f8hlensgt. 55, Bergen
\nPostal address:<\/strong> Postboks 7803, 5020 Bergen<\/p>\n

Telephone:<\/strong> +47 55 58 42 00
\nFax:<\/strong> +47 55 58 41 99<\/p>\n

Wikipedia:<\/strong> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Fellows<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Facebook: <\/strong>@mikefellowsFPT<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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BREAKING NEW GROUND ON ALGORITHMIC FRONTS<\/span><\/h2>\n

Professor Michael Fellows and his University of Bergen research team are revolutionizing how some of computing\u2019s greatest challenges are approached, through the use of new directions in algorithm design.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Parameterized Complexity has brought algorithmic theory into the modern era.  Today, no one would consider ignoring the structure and parameters of problems.  The development of sophisticated parameterized algorithms and innovative mathematical approaches allows complex questions and \u2018big data\u2019 to be analysed from new perspectives. The current challenge Professor Fellows has embraced is to combine this world-leading research with new complexity theory to understand the effectiveness of practical heuristics on real-world datasets, and to systematically design and improve heuristics, based on theory and experiments.<\/p>\n

Some of the impactful approaches he is developing include turbocharging<\/i> heuristics with FPT modules. Fellows\u2019 program of reverse kernelization<\/i> involves incorporating where the data comes from. Together with data visualization, this can significantly contribute to \u201cbig data\u201d analysis. It is inevitable that there should be a theory of groovy FPT<\/i>. The theme here is paying attention to the Structure of Argumentation, such as induction or minimum counter-example. The research answers questions as to how much axiomatic power do you need to prove a particular theorem or to support theorems in computational complexity or multivariate analysis.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We are better than Moore\u2019s Law. We can run a new algorithm on a 20-year old machine and win!” Professor Michael Fellows Elite Professor of Computer Science Department of Informatics University of Bergen Bergen, 5020 Norway Honorary Professor Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Computer ScienceEmail: michael.fellows@uib.noVisiting Address: HIB \u2013Thorm\u00f8hlensgt. 55, Bergen Postal address: Postboks …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike-fellows.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike-fellows.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike-fellows.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike-fellows.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike-fellows.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":133,"href":"https:\/\/mike-fellows.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/mike-fellows.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike-fellows.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}