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Richard M. Karp

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

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Birth Date
1935-01-03 1
Nationality
American 1
Notable Work
Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems (21 NP-complete problems) 1
Birthplace
Boston, Massachusetts, United States 1
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1. Richard M. Karp, Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, birth
    born January 3, 1935
  • Lead paragraph, nationality
    is an American computer scientist
  • Biography section
    Born to parents Abraham and Rose Karp in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Work section
    in 1972 he published a landmark paper in complexity theory, 'Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems', in which he proved 21 problems to be NP-complete
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