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= Richard M. Karp
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Richard M. Karp is a prominent American computer scientist, renowned for his significant contributions to algorithms, computational complexity theory, and combinatorial optimization. He was born on April 3, 1935, and has made major advancements in the fields of computer science and operations research. Karp is perhaps best known for his work on NP-completeness, a concept he helped establish in the early 1970s.