Valerie King

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Valerie King is an American and Canadian computer scientist who works as a professor at the University of Victoria. [1] Her research concerns the design and analysis of algorithms; her work has included results on maximum flow and dynamic graph algorithms, and played a role in the expected linear time MST algorithm of Karger et al. [2]

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She became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014. [3]

Education

King graduated from Princeton University in 1977. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 1983, and became a member of the State Bar of California, but returned to Berkeley and earned a Ph.D. in computer science in 1988 under the supervision of Richard Karp with a dissertation concerning the Aanderaa–Karp–Rosenberg conjecture. [1] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2015-01-08.
  2. Karger, David R.; Klein, Philip N.; Tarjan, Robert E. (1995), "A randomized linear-time algorithm to find minimum spanning trees", Journal of the ACM , 42 (2): 321–328, doi: 10.1145/201019.201022 , S2CID   832583
  3. ACM Names Fellows for Innovations in Computing Archived 2015-01-09 at the Wayback Machine , ACM, January 8, 2015, retrieved 2015-01-08.
  4. Valerie King at the Mathematics Genealogy Project