Richard M. Karp

Computer Scientist

1935 –

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Who is Richard M. Karp?

Richard Manning Karp is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most notable for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing Award in 1985, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science in 2004, and the Kyoto Prize in 2008.

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Born
Jan 3, 1935
Boston
Also known as
  • Карп, Ричард Мэннинг
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Siblings
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Doctorate, Harvard University
    Applied mathematics
    ( - 1959)
  • Master's Degree, Harvard University
    ( - 1956)
  • Bachelor's degree, Harvard University
    ( - 1955)
Employment
  • University of Washington
  • Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley
    (1968 - )
  • Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Lived in
  • Boston

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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