Dr. Richard H. Karp

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gptkbp:instanceOf computer scientist
gptkbp:academicAdvisor gptkb:John_Hopcroft
Ph.D._in_Computer_Science
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkb:Stanford_University
gptkbp:awards Turing Award
gptkbp:birthDate 1935-04-03
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Boston,_Massachusetts,_USA
gptkbp:contribution theoretical computer science
data structures
dynamic programming
randomized algorithms
network flows
computational geometry
parallel algorithms
Karp's 21 NP-complete problems
string matching algorithms
Karp_reduction
gptkbp:fellow gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:Association_for_Computing_Machinery
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Engineering
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:field computer science
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Dr. Richard H. Karp
gptkbp:influenced computational complexity theory
computer science education
optimization techniques
algorithmic research
algorithmic problem solving
theoretical foundations of computer science
computer science policy
interdisciplinary research in computer science
research funding in computer science
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkb:Alan_Turing
gptkbp:knownFor algorithm design
complexity theory
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:David_S._Johnson
gptkb:Robert_Tarjan
gptkb:Michael_Garey
gptkbp:researchFocus NP-completeness
combinatorial optimization
graph theory
approximation algorithms