David G. Kirkpatrick
Canadian computer scientist
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| Intro | Canadian computer scientist | |
| Places | Canada | |
| is | Computer scientist Engineer Educator | |
| Work field | Academia Engineering Technology Science | |
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David Galer Kirkpatrick is a Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of British Columbia. He is known for the Kirkpatrick–Seidel algorithm and his work on polygon triangulation, and for co-inventing α-shapes and the β-skeleton. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1974.
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- Dissertation: Topics in the Complexity of Combinatorial Algorithms, University of Toronto 1974