| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:computer_scientist 
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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology 
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                                | gptkbp:award | gptkb:ACM_Fellow gptkb:Knuth_Prize
 INFORMS Fellow
 
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                                | gptkbp:birthDate | 1945-12-09 
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                                | gptkbp:coauthor | gptkb:László_Lovász gptkb:Christos_Papadimitriou
 gptkb:David_Shmoys
 gptkb:Cynthia_A._Phillips
 gptkb:Eugene_L._Lawler
 gptkb:Michael_Garey
 
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                                | gptkbp:deathDate | 2016-03-08 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor | gptkb:Michael_Garey 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralStudent | gptkb:Samir_Khuller gptkb:Éva_Tardos
 gptkb:David_B._Shmoys
 gptkb:David_Williamson
 gptkb:Clifford_Stein
 gptkb:David_Shmoys
 gptkb:Cliff_Stein
 gptkb:Cynthia_A._Phillips
 gptkb:David_P._Williamson
 gptkb:Lisa_Fleischer
 
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                                | gptkbp:editor | gptkb:SIAM_Journal_on_Computing gptkb:Journal_of_Algorithms
 gptkb:ACM_Transactions_on_Algorithms
 
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                                | gptkbp:employer | gptkb:AT&T_Bell_Labs gptkb:Columbia_University
 
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                                | gptkbp:field | gptkb:theoretical_computer_science gptkb:complexity_theory
 combinatorial optimization
 computer science
 algorithms
 
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                                | gptkbp:knownFor | gptkb:NP-completeness gptkb:Johnson's_algorithm
 Approximation algorithms
 
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                                | gptkbp:memberOf | gptkb:Association_for_Computing_Machinery gptkb:Society_for_Industrial_and_Applied_Mathematics
 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | gptkb:American 
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                                | gptkbp:position | Head of Algorithms and Optimization Department at AT&T Labs 
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                                | gptkbp:publishedIn | gptkb:Approximation_Algorithms_for_NP-hard_Problems gptkb:Computers_and_Intractability:_A_Guide_to_the_Theory_of_NP-Completeness
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:CSAIL gptkb:MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory
 gptkb:Richard_M._Karp
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 4 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | David S. Johnson 
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