Richard Karp

Updated: 12/31/2020 by Computer Hope
Richard Karp

Name: Richard Manning Karp

Born: January 3, 1935, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Computer-related contributions

  • Computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • Known for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing Award.
  • Current research interests include bioinformatics.
  • Associated with Edmonds–Karp algorithm, Karp's 21 NP-complete problems, Hopcroft–Karp algorithm, Karp–Lipton theorem and Rabin–Karp string search algorithm.

Honors and awards

  • Kyoto Prize (2008).
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (2004).
  • Turing Award (1985).

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