David G. Kirkpatrick

David Kirkpatrick at WADS 2015

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 Combinatorial 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