Scott Kirkpatrick is a

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, and professor in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. He has over 75,000 citations in the fields of: information appliances design, statistical physics, and

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. He initially worked at IBM's

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with Daniel Gelatt and

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researching computer design optimization. They argued for "

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" via the

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, whereas one can obtain iterative improvement to a fast cooling process by "defining appropriate temperatures and energies". Their research was published in ''

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'' and was an inflection point in

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Selected research

*Havlin, Shlomo, et al. "Challenges in network science: Applications to infrastructures, climate, social systems and economics." The European Physical Journal Special Topics 214.1 (2012): 273–293. *Schneider, Johannes, and Scott Kirkpatrick. Stochastic optimization. Springer Science & Business Media, 2007. *Carmi, Shai, et al. "A model of Internet topology using k-shell decomposition." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104.27 (2007): 11150–11154. *Kirkpatrick, Scott, C. Daniel Gelatt, and Mario P. Vecchi. "Optimization by simulated annealing." science 220.4598 (1983): 671–680. *Kirkpatrick, Scott. "Percolation and conduction." Reviews of modern physics 45.4 (1973): 574.

References

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