A computer scientist.[ref]
https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/w~kirk/. Independent biographical source: Institutional homepage identifies School of Computer Science and Engineering and research interests; self-authored January 2009 CV confirms physics PhD and computer science professorship. No life dates asserted.
Portrait of Scott Kirkpatrick
. Photograph from Hebrew University of Jerusalem's official researcher profile. Source.
Scott Kirkpatrick is known for his work in the field of computer science, particularly in optimization and artificial intelligence. He is credited with the development of simulated annealing, a probabilistic technique that is used for approximating the global optimum of a given function. Simulated annealing mimics the process of annealing in metallurgy, where controlled cooling helps to minimize defects. Kirkpatrick introduced this algorithm in a landmark paper co-authored with Chilean physicist Jorge A.
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