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 References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Researchers in geometric algorithms Academic staff of the University of British Columbia Canadian computer scientists University of Toronto alumni Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada