David G. Kirkpatrick
Canadian academic and computer scientist
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David Galer Kirkpatrick is a Professor Emeritus 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