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Article: Simplifying complexity: algorithmic contributions of Richard M. Karp.(data acquisition and analysis)
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- Scientific Computing & Instrumentation
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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During an April award ceremony in Philadelphia, the Franklin Institute awarded the 2004 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive science to Richard M. Karp for "his contributions to the understanding of computational complexity" Professor Karp joins an elite group of Franklin Medal laureates including John McCarthy, the creator of artificial intelligence, interactive computer systems designer Lucy Suchman, Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse, computer language theorist Noam Chomsky, and supercomputer designer Seymour Cray. I'd like to think I've been fairly plugged into the computer science scene over the past 20 years. To be honest, I can use a ...