Richard M. Karp belongs to the record of technology as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Richard M. Karp as American theoretical computer scientist (b.1935).
Richard M. Karp was born at Boston in 1935. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Harvard University and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Richard M. Karp is described as mathematician, computer scientist and university teacher.
His affiliations include University of California, Berkeley and University of Washington.
His principal work is A simple algorithm for finding frequent elements in streams and bags. The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
His recorded fields of work are theory of computation and bioinformatics.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Turing Award (1985) and National Medal of Science (1996).
That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Achievements
- Turing Award — 1985
- National Medal of Science — 1996
- Notable work: A simple algorithm for finding frequent elements in streams and bags
- Affiliated with University of California, Berkeley and University of Washington
- Educated at Harvard University, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and University of California, Berkeley
- Worked as mathematician, computer scientist and university teacher
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