Andrew J. T. Colin is a British university professor of computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

. He is a co-inventor of the widely used Binary Tree

Binary tree

In computer science, a binary tree is a tree data structure in which each node has at most two child nodes, usually distinguished as "left" and "right". Nodes with children are parent nodes, and child nodes may contain references to their parents. Outside the tree, there is often a reference to...

 data structure. Professor Colin has published 12 textbook

Textbook

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s on various aspects of Computer Science, some of which have been translated into other languages.

Andrew Colin lectured at Birkbeck College

Birkbeck, University of London

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, University of London

University of London

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 from 1957 to 1960, moving in 1960 to the university's Institute of Computer Science. From 1965 to 1970 he was Director of the Computer Science Laboratory at Lancaster University

Lancaster University

Lancaster University, officially The University of Lancaster, is a leading research-intensive British university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established by Royal Charter in 1964 and initially based in St Leonard's Gate until moving to a purpose-built 300 acre campus at...

. In 1970 he was appointed Professor in the newly created Department of Computer Science at the University of Strathclyde

University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde , Glasgow, Scotland, is Glasgow's second university by age, founded in 1796, and receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university...

. He stepped down as head of department in 1983 and started a company working on developing commercial applications based on the Department's research, while continuing to teach. He now lectures part time at the Graduate School of Business

Strathclyde Business School

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, and at the Institute for System Level Integration

Institute for System Level Integration

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, an institution for postgraduate teaching and research in microelectronics

Microelectronics

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, operated by the universities of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt

Heriot-Watt University

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, Glasgow and Strathclyde.