Awarded IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2000).
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William Kahan
William "Velvel" Morton Kahan is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis."
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Born 5 June 1933 · Q92782
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo (1998).
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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And inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2005
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded Turing Award (1989).
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For "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis
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1933· 1 entry
Born 1933-06-05.
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