David G. Kirkpatrick

For other people named David Kirkpatrick, see David Kirkpatrick (disambiguation).

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]

David Kirkpatrick at WADS 2015

Works

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