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Kenneth "Ken" Keeler (born 1961) is an American television producer and writer. He has written for numerous television series, most notably ''The Simpsons'' and ''Futurama''. According to an interview with David X. Cohen, he proved a theorem which appears in the ''Futurama'' episode "The Prisoner of Benda". ==Career== Ken Keeler studied applied mathematics at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1983. He earned a PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1990. His doctoral thesis was "Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation".〔(WorldCat )〕 He also has a Master's degree from Stanford in electrical engineering. 〔(The Truth About Bender's Brain )〕 After earning his doctorate, Keeler joined the Performance Analysis Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He soon left Bell Labs to write for David Letterman and subsequently for various sitcoms, including several episodes of ''Wings'', ''The Simpsons'', ''Futurama'', and ''The Critic'', as well as the short-lived Fox claymation show ''The PJs''. For ''The Simpsons'', Keeler has written such episodes as "A Star Is Burns" (which Matt Groening refused to be credited for, as he was opposed to the idea of ''The Simpsons'' crossing over with ''The Critic'') and "The Principal and the Pauper" (which many fans – including series creator Matt Groening and voice actor Harry Shearer – disliked due to the massive changes in Principal Skinner's backstory). Keeler was instrumental in the creation of ''Futurama'', and served as a co-executive producer in its first three years, and as an executive producer in its fourth year. He was one of the show's most prolific writers, with nine episodes to his name (including the original series finale, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", the Writers Guild Award-winning episodes "Godfellas" and "The Prisoner of Benda," and the new series finale "Meanwhile."). Keeler wrote many of the original songs on both ''The Simpsons'' and ''Futurama'' during his time with the shows. He also wrote the direct-to-DVD ''Futurama'' movies ''Bender's Big Score'' and ''Into the Wild Green Yonder''. Keeler is also a fan of (but of no relation to) Harry Stephen Keeler and won the (2001 Fifth ) and (2008 Twelfth )(Annual Imitate Keeler Competitions ). His ''Futurama'' episode "Time Keeps on Slippin'" was partly inspired by the Harry Stephen Keeler story "Strange Romance" from the novel ''Y. Cheung, Business Detective''. Having cowritten a paper〔Keeler, K. and Westbrook, J., "Short Encodings of Planar Graphs and Maps", ''Discrete Applied Mathematics'' 58, No. 3 (April 1995), pp. 239–252.〕 with Jeff Westbrook, Keeler has an Erdős number of 4. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ken Keeler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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