Klara Kedem

Klara Kedem is an Israeli computer scientist, a professor of computer science at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel^[1] and an adjunct faculty member in computer science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.^[2]

Kedem received her Ph.D. in 1989 from Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Micha Sharir.^[3] Her most well-cited research publications are in computational geometry, and concern problems of shape comparison,^[4] motion planning,^[5] and Voronoi diagrams.^[6] She has also collaborated with philosophers and linguists on a project to decipher handwritten medieval Hebrew writings that had been overwritten in Arabic.^[7]

Selected publications

• Kedem, Klara; Livné, Ron; Pach, János; Sharir, Micha (1986), "On the union of Jordan regions and collision-free translational motion amidst polygonal obstacles", Discrete & Computational Geometry 1 (1): 59–71, doi:10.1007/BF02187683, MR 824108.
• Huttenlocher, Daniel P.; Kedem, Klara; Sharir, Micha (1993), "The upper envelope of Voronoĭ surfaces and its applications", Discrete & Computational Geometry 9 (3): 267–291, doi:10.1007/BF02189323, MR 1204784.
• Arkin, Esther M.; Chew, L. Paul; Huttenlocher, Daniel P.; Kedem, Klara; Mitchell, Joseph S. B. (1991), "An Efficiently Computable Metric for Comparing Polygonal Shapes", IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 13 (3): 209–216, doi:10.1109/34.75509.

References

1. Faculty listing, Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, retrieved 2012-09-30.
2. Faculty listing, Cornell University, retrieved 2012-09-30.
3. Klara Kedem at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. Arkin et al. (1991).
5. Kedem et al. (1986).
6. Huttenlocher, Kedem & Sharir (1993).
7. Fisher, Hannah (August 12, 2009), "Algorithms help unravel the secrets of ancient documents. B-G University project discovers Hebrew prayers under Arabic lettering", Jerusalem Post, (subscription required (help)).

External links

• Klara Kedem's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier