David G. Kirkpatrick

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 and the β-skeleton. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1974.

Works

 * Dissertation: Topics in the Complexity of Combinatorial Algorithms, University of Toronto 1974