interior-point method, Karmarkar worked on a new architecture for supercomputing, based on concepts from finite geometry, especially projective geometry over finite fields. Current investigations Currently, he is synthesizing these concepts with some new ideas he calls sculpturing free space (a non-linear analogue of what has popularly been described as folding the perfect corner). This approach allows him to extend this work to the physical design of machines. He is now publishing updates on his recent work, including an extended abstract. This new paradigm was presented at IVNC, Poland on 16 July 2008, and at MIT on 25 July 2008. Some of his recent work is published at IEEE Xplore. He delivered a lecture on his ongoing work at IIT Bombay in September 2013. He gave a four-part series of lectures at FOCM 2014 (Foundations of Computational Mathematics) titled "Towards a Broader View of Theory of Computing". First part of this lecture series is available at Cornell archive. Awards The Association for Computing Machinery awarded him the prestigious Paris Kanellakis Award in 2000 for his work on polynomial-time interior-point methods for linear programming for "specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing". Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award for 1999, presented by the Prime Minister of India. Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1996. Distinguished Alumnus Award, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (1993). Fulkerson Prize in Discrete Mathematics given jointly by the American Mathematical Society & Mathematical Programming Society (1988) Fellow of Bell Laboratories (since 1987). Texas Instruments Founders' Prize (1986). Marconi International Young Scientist Award (1985). Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, presented by former U.S. president (1985). Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America for the Best Published Contributions to Operations Research (1984). President of India gold medal, I.I.T. Bombay (1978). References External links Distinguished Alumnus 1996 IIT Bombay Flashback: An Interior Point Method for Linear Programming IIT Bombay Heritage Fund Karmarkar function in Scilab 1957 births Living people Theoretical computer scientists Numerical analysts 20th-century Indian mathematicians 21st-century Indian mathematicians Indian computer scientists American computer scientists Scientists at Bell Labs University of California, Berkeley alumni IIT Bombay alumni California Institute of Technology alumni Indian emigrants to the United States American operations researchers Indian operations researchers American academics of Indian descent People from Gwalior