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, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for contributions to the theory of NP-completeness, efficient combinatorial algorithms, and probabilistic methods in computer science.
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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, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for contributions to the theory of NP-completeness, efficient combinatorial algorithms, and probabilistic methods in computer science.
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January 3, 1935
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