R. W. Hamming

GPTKB entity

Statements (39)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Mathematician
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Chicago
gptkb:University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana-Champaign
gptkbp:awards gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science
Turing Award
IEEE Medal of Honor
gptkbp:birthDate 1915-08-11
gptkbp:children 3
gptkbp:contribution Hamming window
Hamming graph
Hamming weight
gptkbp:deathDate 1998-01-07
gptkbp:field Computer Science
Mathematics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label R. W. Hamming
gptkbp:inception Hamming code (1950)
Hamming distance (1950)
Hamming theorem (1950)
Hamming's coding theory (1950)
Hamming's method of least squares (1950)
Hamming's principle of error detection (1950)
Hamming's work on algorithms (1950)
Hamming's work on computer programming (1950)
Hamming's work on digital signal processing (1950)
Hamming's work on numerical analysis (1950)
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Claude_Shannon
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkbp:knownFor Hamming code
Hamming distance
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Robert_W._Lucky
gptkb:John_McCarthy
gptkb:David_A._Patterson
gptkbp:occupation Mathematician
Computer_Scientist
gptkbp:residence gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Margaret_Hamming
gptkbp:work Information theory
Numerical methods
Error detection and correction