Biography:Klara Kedem
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Short description: Israeli computer scientist
Klara Kedem | |
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Nationality | Israeli |
Alma mater | Tel Aviv University |
Occupation | computer scientist |
Klara Kedem is an Israeli computer scientist, a professor of computer science at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel[1] and an adjunct faculty member in computer science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.[2]
Kedem received her Ph.D. in 1989 from Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Micha Sharir.[3] Her most well-cited research publications are in computational geometry, and concern problems of shape comparison,[ACH] motion planning,[KLP] and Voronoi diagrams.[HKS] She has also collaborated with philosophers and linguists on a project to decipher handwritten medieval Hebrew writings that had been overwritten in Arabic.[4]
Selected publications
HKS. | Huttenlocher, Daniel P.; Kedem, Klara; Sharir, Micha (1993), "The upper envelope of Voronoĭ surfaces and its applications", Discrete & Computational Geometry 9 (3): 267–291, doi:10.1007/BF02189323, EuDML 131248 |
ACH. | "An Efficiently Computable Metric for Comparing Polygonal Shapes", IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 13 (3): 209–216, 1991, doi:10.1109/34.75509, https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/8729/1/TR000845.pdf |
KLP. | Kedem, Klara; Livné, Ron (1986), "On the union of Jordan regions and collision-free translational motion amidst polygonal obstacles", Discrete & Computational Geometry 1 (1): 59–71, doi:10.1007/BF02187683, EuDML 130981 |
References
- ↑ Faculty listing, Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, retrieved 2012-09-30.
- ↑ Faculty listing, Cornell University, retrieved 2012-09-30.
- ↑ Klara Kedem at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Fisher, Hannah (August 12, 2009), "Algorithms help unravel the secrets of ancient documents. B-G University project discovers Hebrew prayers under Arabic lettering", Jerusalem Post, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-169130970.html.
External links
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