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Richard M. Karp

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American theoretical computer scientist (b.1935)

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1935 · age 91
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Richard Manning Karp is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley.

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2009Dickson Prize in Science
2009Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
2008Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
2004Benjamin Franklin Medal
2004Benjamin Franklin Medal
2000EATCS award
1998Harvey Prize
1996National Medal of Science
1995Charles Babbage Award
1994ACM Fellow
1990John von Neumann Theory Prize
1985Turing Award
1979Fulkerson Prize
1977Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
Harvard Centennial Medal
honorary doctorate of Technion
honorary doctorate of the Weizmann Institute of Science
honorary doctor of ETH Zürich

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Richard Manning Karp is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most notable for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which 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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Born 1935 · age 91
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