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Oral History: Russell Impagliazzo in Conversation with Dick Karp


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Simons Institute founding director Richard M. Karp.

As Richard M. Karp's five years of service as founding director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, came to a close, he was interviewed about some of the key developments in theoretical computer science during his career.

Credit: UC Berkeley EECS

In honor of Dick Karp's five years of service as founding director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, at the University of California, Berkeley, the Simons Institute asked Russell Impagliazzo to interview him about some of the key developments in theoretical computer science during his long and distinguished career.

Karp, recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award for 1985, stepped down as director of the Simons Institute on Dec. 31, 2017, to be succeeded by 2012 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Shafi Goldwasser.


 

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