Valerie King facts for kids
Valerie King is a brilliant computer scientist from both America and Canada. She is a professor at the University of Victoria, a university in Canada. Professor King studies and creates algorithms. Algorithms are like step-by-step instructions that computers follow to solve problems.
Her work has helped improve how computers solve complex tasks. For example, she has worked on "maximum flow" problems. These problems are about finding the best way to move things through a network, like traffic on roads or data on the internet. She also worked on "dynamic graph algorithms." These are special instructions for computers to handle information that changes often.
In 2014, Valerie King was recognized as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. This is a very high honor for computer scientists. It means she is considered one of the top experts in her field.
Valerie King's Education
Her University Journey
Valerie King started her higher education at Princeton University. She graduated from Princeton in 1977. Later, she studied law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She earned a special law degree called a Juris Doctor in 1983. She even became a lawyer in California for a short time.
However, she decided to go back to Berkeley. This time, she focused on computer science. She earned her Ph.D. in computer science in 1988. A Ph.D. is the highest university degree you can get. Her main teacher for this degree was a famous computer scientist named Richard Karp. For her Ph.D., she wrote a long paper called a dissertation. It was about a complex idea in computer science called the Aanderaa–Karp–Rosenberg conjecture.
External Links
- Valerie King's Home Page
- Valerie King's Google Scholar Profile
