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Richard Manning Karp (born January 3, 1935) is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Richard M. Karp. 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008: From the Early Years to the State …. Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies …. D Culler, R Karp, D...
From 1988 to 1995 and 1999 to the present he has been a Research Scientist at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. His current activities center on algorithmic methods in genomics and computer networking. He has supervised thirty-six Ph.D. dissertations.
Richard Karp, American mathematician and computer scientist and winner of the 1985 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, for ‘his continuing contributions to the theory of algorithms.’ Learn more about Karp’s life and career, including his other awards.
Professor Emeritus. Research area: Applied Mathematics. Bio: Selected Publications: Daskalakis, Constantinos and Dimakis, Alexandros G. and Karp, Richard M. and Wainwright, Martin J. (2008). Probabilistic analysis of linear programming decoding. IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 54 No.8, 3565-3578. [ MR. ] [ GS? Karp, Richard M. (2008).
Richard Karp was the founding Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (2012-2017). He attended Boston Latin School and Harvard University, receiving his PhD in 1959. From 1959 to 1968 he was a member of the Mathematical Sciences Department at IBM Research.
The Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lectures were created in Fall 2019 to celebrate the role of Simons Institute Founding Director Dick Karp in establishing the field of theoretical computer science, formulating its central problems, and contributing stunning results in the areas of computational complexity and algorithms.
