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Richard Karp
Theoretical Computer Scientist
Richard Karp appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across geopolitics, history. Lex describes Richard Karp as theoretical computer scientist.
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2020
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Lex Fridman Podcast / July 26, 2020 / Episode #111
Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity
Richard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the most important figures in the history of theoretical computer science. In 1985, he received the Turing Award for his research in the theory of algorithms, including the development of the Edmonds–Karp algorithm for solving the maximum flow problem on networks, Hopcroft–Karp algorithm for finding maximum cardinality matchings in bipartite graphs, and his landmark paper in complexity theory called "Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems", in which he proved 21 problems to be NP-complete. This paper was probably the most important catalyst in the explosion of interest in the study of NP-completeness and the P vs NP problem.
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Richard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the most important figures in the history of theoretical computer science. In 1985, he received the Turing Award for his research in the theory of algorithms, including the development of the Edmonds–Karp algorithm for solving the maximum flow problem on networks, Hopcroft–Karp algorithm for finding maximum cardinality matchings in bipartite graphs, and his landmark paper in complexity theory called "Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems", in which he proved 21 problems to be NP-complete. This paper was probably the most important catalyst in the explosion of interest in the study of NP-completeness and the P vs NP problem.
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Richard Karp
Theoretical Computer Scientist
Richard Karp appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across geopolitics, history. Lex describes Richard Karp as theoretical computer scientist.
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July 26, 2020 to July 26, 2020
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