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Richard Hamming

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American mathematician and information theorist (1915-1998)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1915 to 1998 · aged 82
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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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A two-dimensional visualisation of the Hamming distance. The color of each pixel indicates the Hamming distance between the binary representations of its x and y coordinates, modulo 16, in the 16-color system.A two-dimensional visualisation of the Hamming distance. The color of each pixel indicates the Hamming distance between the binary representations of its x and y coordinates, modulo 16, in the 16-color system.

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1996prize
1994ACM Fellow
1988IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
1981Harold Pender Award
1979IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
1968Turing Award
1968IEEE Fellow

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Grandma MosesAlso won prizeLotfi A. ZadehAlso won IEEE Richard W. Hamming MedalJ. Presper EckertAlso won IEEE Emanuel R. Piore AwardEdwin H. LandAlso won Harold Pender AwardEdwin CatmullAlso won Turing AwardJohn MauchlyAlso won IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award

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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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deceased
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Lived 1915 to 1998 · aged 82
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