Narendra Karmarkar
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Narendra Karmarkar
Narendra Krishna Karmarkar (born 1957) is an Indian mathematician, who developed Karmarkars algorithm He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcherNarendra Karmarkar was born in Gwalior After securing an All India Rank 1 in the Joint Entrance Examination conducted by the prestigious IITs (IITJEE), he took admission in the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Karmarkar received his BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1978, MS from the California Institute of Technology and PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley[citation needed] He invented a polynomial algorithm for linear programming also known as the interior point method The algorithm is a cornerstone in the field of Linear Programming He published his famous result in 1984 while he was working for Bell Laboratories in New Jersey Karmarkar was a professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai He is currently working on a new architecture for supercomputing Some of the ideas are published at the IEEE website Fab5 conference organised by MIT center for bits and atoms