Oral History: Russell Impagliazzo in Conversation with Dick Karp

In honor of Dick Karp's five years of service as Founding Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, we invited Russell Impagliazzo to interview him about some of the key developments in theoretical computer science during his long and distinguished career. 

Dick Karp steps down as Director of the Simons Institute on December 31, 2017. He will be succeeded by Shafi Goldwasser. 

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