Richard Hamming
Sign in to saveAmerican mathematician and information theorist (1915–1998)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1915
- Died
- 1998
- Works
- 10
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- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 61,419x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 57,940x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 46,605x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 46,001x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
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Key facts
- Born
- Richard Wesley Hamming , ( 1915-02-11 ) February 11, 1915, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- Died
- January 7, 1998 (1998-01-07) (aged 82), Monterey, California , U.S.
- Education
- University of Chicago ( BS ), University of Nebraska ( MA ), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ( PhD )
- Known for
- Hamming code Hamming window Hamming numbers Hamming distance Hamming weight Association for Computing Machinery
- Awards
- Turing Award (1968) , IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1979) , Harold Pender Award (1981) , IEEE Hamming Medal (1988)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Louisville Manhattan Project (Los Alamos Laboratory, (1945-1946) ) Bell Labs (1946–1976) Naval Postgraduate School (1976–1998)
- Thesis
- Some Problems in the Boundary Value Theory of Linear Differential Equations (1942)
- Doctoral advisor
- Waldemar Trjitzinsky
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Key dates
- Born
- 11 February 1915
- Died
- 7 January 1998
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Place of death
- Monterey
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- chairperson
- Employer
- University of Illinois system
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, the sphere-packing or Hamming bound, Hamming graph concepts, and the Hamming distance.
Born in Chicago, Hamming attended the University of Chicago, the University of Nebraska and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he wrote his doctoral thesis in mathematics under the supervision of Waldemar Trjitzinsky (1901–1973). In April 1945, he joined the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory, where he programmed the IBM calculating machines that computed the solution to equations provided by the project's physicists. He left to join the Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1946. Over the next fifteen years, he was involved in nearly all of the laboratories' most prominent achievements. For his work, he received the ACM Turing Award in 1968, being its third recipient.
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1915 births1998 deaths20th-century American mathematiciansAmerican information theoristsAmerican people of Dutch descentCity College of New York facultyCoding theoristsCrane High School (Chicago) alumniFellows of the Association for Computing MachineryFellows of the IEEEManhattan Project peopleMathematicians from Illinois