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Richard Hamming

American mathematician and information theorist (1915-1998) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 82

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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1998Died7 January 19981996PrizeAward1994ACM FellowAward1988IEEE Richard W. Hamming MedalAward1981Harold Pender AwardAward1979IEEE Emanuel R. Piore AwardAward1968IEEE FellowAwardTuring AwardAward1915Born11 February 1915