Richard W. Hamming

GPTKB entity

Statements (46)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:physicist
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Chicago
gptkb:US_Naval_Academy
gptkbp:awards gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science
gptkb:Computer_Pioneer_Award
Turing Award
Fellow of the IEEE
IEEE Medal of Honor
Hamming Medal
Fellow_of_the_American_Mathematical_Society
Fellow_of_the_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
Fellow_of_the_Association_for_Computing_Machinery
Fellow_of_the_American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science
Fellow_of_the_National_Academy_of_Engineering
gptkbp:born February 11, 1915
gptkbp:children 3
gptkbp:contribution Computer programming
Information theory
Numerical methods
Error detection and correction
gptkbp:died January 7, 1998
gptkbp:field Computer Science
Mathematics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Richard W. Hamming
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Bjarne_Stroustrup
gptkb:John_Backus
gptkb:Edsger_W._Dijkstra
gptkb:Claude_Shannon
Barbara Liskov
Niklaus Wirth
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkbp:knownFor Hamming Code
Hamming Distance
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:John_McCarthy
gptkb:Peter_G._Neumark
gptkb:Robert_W._Floyd
gptkb:David_L._Parnas
Donald Knuth
gptkbp:occupation Author
Professor
gptkbp:residence gptkb:California
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Margaret_Hamming
gptkbp:work gptkb:Bell_Labs
gptkb:Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory
NASA