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Richard Hamming
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American mathematician and information theorist (1915–1998)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1915
- Died
- 1998
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Calculus and the Computer Revolution
- The art of doing science and engineering
- The Art of Probability
- Some problems in the boundary value theory of linear differential equations
- Coding and information theory
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Active from
- 1993-11-13
Discography
- Fake Love Hypocrisy2014
- Ham2015
- The Perv In Perfection2015
- Luck is for Suckers2017
- Postponed2021
- Watch and Learn2023
- Stay Where You Are2023
- Don't Leave Me Now2024
- Where Do You Go2024
- It Ain't Easy2025
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 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 63,413x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,266x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,672x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,319x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,656x
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Quotes
- “The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.”
- “As a practicing computer veteran, this reviewer has the habit of looking at the hypothesis of a theorem and asking:”
- “Typing is no substitute for thinking.”
- “Without real experience in using the computer to get useful results the computer science major is apt to know all about the marvelous tool except how to use it. Such a person is a mere technician, skilled in manipulating the tool but with little sense of how and when to use it for its basic purposes.”
- “The Postulates of Mathematics Were Not on the Stone Tablets that Moses Brought Down from Mt. Sinai.”
- “The idea that theorems follow from the postulates does not correspond to simple observation. If the Pythagorean theorem were found to not follow from the postulates, we would again search for a way to alter the postulates until it was true. Euclid's postulates came from the Pythagorean theorem, not the other way around.”
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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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Encyclopedic overview
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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