William Kahan

Also known as William Morton Kahan

Canadian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1933)

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Born: ( 1933-06-05 ) June 5, 1933 (age 93) , Toronto, Ontario , Canada
Education: University of Toronto ( BS , MS , PhD )
Known for: IEEE 754 Kahan summation algorithm
Awards: Turing Award (1989) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2000) National Academy of Engineering ACM Fellow
Fields: Mathematics Computer science
Institutions: University of California, Berkeley
Thesis: Gauss–Seidel Methods of Solving Large Systems of Linear Equations (1958)
Doctoral advisor: Byron Griffith
Doctoral students: James Demmel

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Instance of: human
Given name: William
Gender: male
Citizenship: Canada
Place of birth: Toronto
Occupation: university teacher
Educated at: University of Toronto
Official website: www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan
Image: William Kahan.jpg

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date of birth: 1933-06-05
Erdős number: 4
member of: Association for Computing Machinery
Commons category: William Kahan
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William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) 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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