David G. Kirkpatrick

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David Galer Kirkpatrick is a professor 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[1] and the β-skeleton.[2] He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1974.[3]

Works

  • Dissertation: Topics in the Complexity of Combinational Algorithms, University of Toronto 1974

References

  1. ↑ Edelsbrunner, Herbert; Kirkpatrick, David G.; Seidel, Raimund (1983), "On the shape of a set of points in the plane", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 29 (4): 551–559, doi:10.1109/TIT.1983.1056714 .
  2. ↑ Kirkpatrick, David G.; Radke, J. D. (1985), "A framework for computational morphology", Computational Geometry, Machine Intelligence and Pattern Recognition 2, Amsterdam: North-Holland, pp. 217–248 .
  3. ↑ http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=71944
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