Some Problems in the Boundary Value Theory of Linear Differential Equations (1942)
Doctoral advisor
Waldemar Trjitzinsky
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, sphere-packing (or Hamming bound), Hamming graph concepts, and the Hamming distance.
Born in Chicago, Hamming attended University of Chicago, 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 Turing Award in 1968, being its third recipient.[1]
After retiring from the Bell Labs in 1976, Hamming took a position at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he worked as an adjunct professor and senior lecturer in computer science, and devoted himself to teaching and writing books. He delivered his last lecture in December 1997, just a few weeks before he died from a heart attack on January 7, 1998.
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include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing (or Hamming bound), Hamming graph concepts...
capability of the code. The Hamming distance is named after RichardHamming, who introduced the concept in his fundamental paper on Hamming codes, Error detecting...
computer science and telecommunication, Hamming codes are a family of linear error-correcting codes. Hamming codes can detect one-bit and two-bit errors...
Hamming may refer to: RichardHamming (1915–1998), American mathematician Hamming(7,4), in coding theory, a linear error-correcting code Overacting, or...
reality. Hamming proposes that Galileo discovered the law of falling bodies not by experimenting, but by simple, though careful, thinking. Hamming imagines...
sum, or bit summation. The Hamming weight is named after RichardHamming although he did not originate the notion. The Hamming weight of binary numbers...
Engineering is a book by American mathematician RichardHamming. The book comes from a course Hamming taught at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey...
subspace of its Hamming space, it is called a linear code. A typical example of linear code is the Hamming code. Codes defined via a Hamming space necessarily...
generated are also called the Hamming numbers. Dijkstra's ideas to compute these numbers are the following: The sequence of Hamming numbers begins with the...
their Hamming distance is one. The Hamming graph H(d,q) is, equivalently, the Cartesian product of d complete graphs Kq. In some cases, Hamming graphs...
American mathematician RichardHamming pioneered this field in the 1940s and invented the first error-correcting code in 1950: the Hamming (7,4) code. FEC can...
Prize. The definition of the "Nobel Prize effect" most attributed to RichardHamming describes the effect as a reduction in productivity, making it hard...
distributed source coding. He was colleagues with Claude Shannon and RichardHamming at Bell Labs. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he gained a B.Sc. at...
subsequently shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956). In 1947, RichardHamming invented Hamming codes for error detection and correction. For patent reasons...
error-correcting codes. He invented the concepts known as Hamming codes, Hamming windows, Hamming numbers, and Hamming distance. In 1972, Nasir Ahmed proposed the discrete...
unpublished Bell Laboratories technical memorandum by John Tukey and RichardHamming. That paper includes an example of frequency aliasing dating back to...
described FORTRAN stating that "it consists entirely of spaghetti code". RichardHamming described in his lectures the etymology of the term in the context...
window to it. The confusion arose from the similar Hamming function, named after RichardHamming. Window function Apodization Raised cosine distribution...
(proposed by Shannon) and the adversarial noise model (considered by RichardHamming). Since the mid 90s, significant algorithmic progress by the coding...
doi:10.1145/321495.321497. S2CID 6868310. Edmund F. Robertson. "Richard W. Hamming - A.M. Turing Award Laureate". Association for Computing Machinery...
development of error correction codes is credited to RichardHamming in 1947. A description of Hamming's code appeared in Claude Shannon's A Mathematical...
The Hamming scheme, named after RichardHamming, is also known as the hyper-cubic association scheme, and it is the most important example for coding...
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