- Richard J. Lipton
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birth_date = Sept 6, 1946
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field =computer science
work_institutions = Yale
Berkeley
Princeton
Georgia Tech
alma_mater = Carnegie Mellon
doctoral_advisor =David Parnas
doctoral_students =Dan Boneh Avi Wigderson
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footnotes =Richard Jay "Dick" Lipton is an American computer scientist who has worked in computer science theory, cryptography, and DNA computing. Prof. Lipton is presently Associate Dean of Research, Professor, and the Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing in the College of Computing at
Georgia Institute of Technology .Career
In 1968, Lipton received his undergraduate degree in
mathematics fromCase Western Reserve University . In 1973, he received hisPh.D. fromCarnegie Mellon University ; his dissertation, supervised byDavid Parnas , is entited "On Synchronization Primitive Systems". After graduating, Lipton taught at Yale from 1973–1978, at Berkeley from 1978–1980, and then at Princeton from 1980–2000. Since 2000, Lipton has been at Georgia Tech. While at Princeton, Lipton worked in the field ofDNA computing . Since 1996, Lipton has been the chief consulting scientist atTelcordia . In 1980, along withRichard M. Karp , Lipton proved theKarp-Lipton theorem (which proves that, if SAT can be solved byBoolean circuit s with a polynomial number oflogic gate s, then thepolynomial hierarchy collapses to its second level). __NOTOC__Awards and Honors
*Guggenheim Fellow, 1981
*Fellow of theAssociation for Computing Machinery , 1997
*member of theNational Academy of Engineering ee also
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SL (complexity)
*Take-grant protection model External links
* [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/directory/richard-lipton/ Georgia Tech profile]
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