William Kahan

Also known as William Morton Kahan

Canadian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1933)

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Minor Prophets
The coronal and telluric microwave spectra near 53 kMc

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1997-01-05

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5 total works indexed

VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 63,006x
Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,848x
Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,579x
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,951x
Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,686x

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Key facts

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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Encyclopedic overview

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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