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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OUTLINE: 00:00 - Introduction 03:50 - Geometry 09:46 - Visualizing an algorithm 13:00 - A beautiful algorithm 18:06 - Don Knuth and geeks 22:06 - Early days of computers 25:53 - Turing Test 30:05 - Consciousness 33:22 - Combinatorial algorithms 37:42 - Edmonds-Karp algorithm 40:22 - Algorithmic complexity 50:25 - P=NP 54:25 - NP-Complete problems 1:10:29 - Proving P=NP 1:12:57 - Stable marriage problem 1:20:32 - Randomized algorithms 1:33:23 - Can a hard problem be easy in practice? 1:43:57 - Open problems in theoretical computer science 1:46:21 - A strange idea in complexity theory 1:50:49 - Machine learning 1:56:26 - Bioinformatics 2:00:37 - Memory of Richard's father https://lexfridman.com/richard-karp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=richard-karp
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