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Richard Hamming
Richard Wesley Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code, the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, the sphere-packing or Hamming bound, Hamming graph concepts, and the Hamming distance.
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science · American mathematician and information theorist (1915–1998) · mathematician · computer scientist · engineer · university teacher · also Richard Hamming, Richard Wesley Hamming, Richard W. Hamming, Hamming
Born 11 February 1915 · Died 7 January 1998 · Q92619
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1998· 2 entries
Died 1998-01-07.
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“Typing is no substitute for thinking.”
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded prize presented by Eduard Rhein Foundation (1996).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
Remarked that "when I left BTL, I knew that that was the end of my scientific career
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1988· 1 entry
Won IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1988).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Harold Pender Award (1981).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1979).
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1976· 2 entries
Moved to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he worked as an adjunct professor and senior lecturer in computer science
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Hamming took a position at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he worked as an adjunct professor and senior lecturer in computer science, and devoted himself to teaching and writing books
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1968· 2 entries
Awarded Turing Award (1968).
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Awarded IEEE Fellow (1968).
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1960· 1 entry
Predicted that one day half of the Bell Labs budget would be spent on computing
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1958· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1958–1960).
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1950· 1 entry
Introduced a concept of the number of positions in which two code words differ, and therefore how many changes are required to transform one code word into another, which is today known as the Hamming distance
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1947· 1 entry
Set the machines to perform a long and complex series of calculations over the weekend, only to find when he arrived on Monday morning that an error had occurred early in the process and the calculation had errored of
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1944· 1 entry
Became an assistant professor at the J
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1942· 3 entries
Immediately after she was awarded her own Master of Arts in English literature
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Studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Doctor of Philosophy (1942).
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And he became an instructor in mathematics there
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1939· 1 entry
And then entered the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on Some Problems in the Boundary Value Theory of Linear Differential Equations under the supervision of Waldemar Trjitzi
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1937· 1 entry
Studied at University of Chicago, Bachelor of Science (1937).
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1915· 1 entry
Born 1915-02-11.
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