Richard J. Lipton
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American computer scientist
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Richard J. Lipton is a male computer scientist, university teacher, and mathematician born in 1946. He holds United States citizenship and resides in Atlanta, where he is employed by Georgia Tech. Lipton earned a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of David Parnas. He speaks and writes in English.
His academic affiliations include membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Association for Computing Machinery. He is recognized as an ACM Fellow and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Knuth Prize. Lipton has an Erdős number of 2.
He is the doctoral advisor to Avi Wigderson and Dan Boneh. As an author, he has produced seven works, including *Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain*, *DNA Based Computers*, *Introduction to Quantum Algorithms Via Linear Algebra, Second Edition*, and *People, Problems, and Proofs*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain
- DNA Based Computers
- Introduction to Quantum Algorithms Via Linear Algebra, Second Edition
- People, Problems, and Proofs
- DNA based computers
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1965-07-31
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,369x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,247x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,657x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,271x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,600x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Educated at
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Employer
- Georgia Tech
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- ACM Fellow
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- David Parnas
- Official website
- www.scs.gatech.edu/people/richard-lipton
- Work location
- Atlanta
- Residence
- Atlanta
Show 5 more facts
- official blog URL
- rjlipton.wordpress.com
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- date of birth
- 1946-09-06
- Erdős number
- 2
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
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