Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman Podcast

#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity

July 26, 20202 hr 8 min

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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 Proble

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