http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/01/qa-with-richard-karp/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/01/qa-with-richard-karp/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 16:24:01 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=29534 Establishing a new research institute at a top-tier university is a major undertaking that required a great deal of teamwork to pull off. In a recent interview, Richard Karp, founding director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, gave the inside story on how it all came together.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/01/qa-with-richard-karp/feed/ 0