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	Richard Hamming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was a mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications.
		His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window (described in section 5.8 of his book Digital Filters), Hamming numbers, Sphere-packing (or hamming bound) and the Hamming distance.
		The Richard W. Hamming Medal is an award given annually by IEEE for 'exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems and technology'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Hamming (633 words)

	Hamming code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hamming worked at Bell Labs in the 1940s on the Bell Model V computer, an electromechanical relay-based monster with cycle times in seconds.
		Hamming also noticed the problems with flipping two or more bits, and described this as the "distance" (it is now called the Hamming distance, after him).
		Hamming was interested in two problems at once; increasing the distance as much as possible, while at the same time increasing the information rate as much as possible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamming_code (2123 words)

	Richard Wesley Hamming Biography / Biography of Richard Wesley Hamming World of Computer Science Biography
		Hamming was briefly involved in teaching mathematics but in 1945 he joined the Manhattan Project, based at Los Alamos, here he managed the computer department for the group developing the first atomic bomb.
		Hamming worked on error-detecting and error-correcting codes, and in 1950 he published his, and the world's, first paper on the subject, thus forming a new branch within information theory called Hamming codes.
		Hamming added a block of code that would check each of the bits, be able to find up to two errors in a string, and, most importantly, the computer could then fix at least one of the bad bits.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-richard-wesley-hamming-wcs (849 words)

	Hamming (7,4) code
		Hamming, who had the use of the computer on weekends, was really frustrated by constantly having to restart his computations, so he devised the first error-correcting codes.
		Hamming noted that such a code must be able to detect n possible locations of errors, plus the possibility that there are no errors.
		We see that the Hamming distance between two vertices is simply the mimumum number of edges that it is necessary to traverse in going from one vertice to another.
	www.cs.mcgill.ca /~smroso/hamming.html (1879 words)

	Richard Hamming Computer Encyclopedia Enterprise Resource Directory Complete Guide to Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Richard Hamming received his B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1937, his M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1939, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1942.
		Hamming's fundamental paper on error-detecting and error-correcting codes ("{Hamming codes}") appeared in 1950.
		Although best known for error-correcting codes, Hamming was primarily a numerical analyst, working on integrating {differential equations} and the {Hamming spectral window} used for smoothing data before {Fourier analysis}.
	www.jaysir.com /computer-encyclopedia/r/richard-hamming-computer-terms.htm (306 words)

	Richard Hamming: You and Your Research
		Hamming: Once that was a very popular thing, but it seems not to have paid off.
		Hamming: I believed, in my early days, that you should spend at least as much time in the polish and presentation as you did in the original research.
		Hamming: If you want to be a great researcher, you won't make it being president of the company.
	www.paulgraham.com /hamming.html (11022 words)

	March 1998 IT Newsletter Obituary -Richard W. Hamming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In addition to his research and teaching, Hamming was a founder and president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), vice president of the Mathematical Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and editor for a variety of technical journals in computer science, mathematics, and engineering sciences.
		Hamming was the first recipient of the IEEE's annual Richard W. Hamming Medal, named in his honor in 1986.
		Hamming was also nominated for the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award for contributions to science and the nation's defense.
	www.itsoc.org /publications/nltr/98_mar/orb.html (460 words)

	The Franklin Institute Certficates of Merit - Richard W. Hamming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1947, Hamming was one of the earliest users of primitive computers at Bell Laboratories.
		Within several months Hamming discovered that extra bits could be added to the internal binary numbers of the computer to redundantly encode numerical quantities.
		Hamming's achievement enormously improved the practical application of early computers by substantially increasing their reliability.
	sln.fi.edu /tfi/exhibits/hamming.html (350 words)

	You and Your Research, Dr. Richard W. Hamming
		While the recording of Richard Hamming's talk was completely intelligible, that of some of the questioner's remarks were not.
		Richard W. Hamming was born February 11, 1915, in Chicago, Illinois.
		Richard Hamming has received a number of awards which include: Fellow, IEEE, 1968; the ACM Turing Prize, 1968; the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, 1979; Member, National Academy of Engineering, 1980; and the Harold Pender Award, U. Penn., 1981.
	www.cse.nd.edu /resources/hamming.html (12227 words)

	Richard Hamming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Prior to that Hamming had spent three decades at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ where he was a major factor in computerizing the laboratories both in hardware and software.
		Richard Hamming had received a number of awards which included: Fellow, IEEE, 1968; the ACM Turing Prize, 1968; the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, 1979; Member, National Academy of Engineering, 1980; and the Harold Pender Award, U. Penn., 1981.
		In 1987 a major IEEE award was named after him, namely the Richard W. Hamming Medal, ``For exceptional contributions to information sciences and systems''; fittingly, he was also the first recipient of this award, 1988.
	pore.csc.fi /math_topics/Mail/NANET98-1/msg00022.html (268 words)

	Richard Wesley Hamming
		Richard Hamming (1915-1998) got a BS from the University of Chicago and, in 1942, a PhD in mathematics from the University of Illinois.
		I have the impression that when Hamming himself was asked to explain what he meant, he wiggled around and came up with changing interpretations and constant modifications.
		We seem to be in a period of transition, in which claims of priority and originality, on the one hand, make a difference and, on the other hand, being in some cases impossible to validate but easy to invalidate, ought not to make a difference.
	getuhv.net /articles.html (1462 words)

	Richard Hamming - "You and Your Research" \| Lambda the Ultimate
		During a discussion on the subject of passion in programming, David Bremner on #haskell pointed out Richard Hamming's 1986 talk You and Your Research.
		Hamming clearly describes both the difference between the two and how you can be one of those who do.
		Hamming wrote a book that goes deeper into the topic of his talk: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1997.
	lambda-the-ultimate.org /node/view/668 (691 words)

	Richard Hamming Astronomy Center - Spring 1999 MIRA Quarterly Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Hammings were long-time Friends of MIRA and shared a life-long interest in the mysteries of astronomy.
		Dick’s widow, Wanda Hamming, was part of the initial group of supporters of MIRA who joined together in Ansel Adam’s living room to form the Friends of MIRA.
		Hamming towards the completion of the renovations of the MIRA Astronomy Center.
	www.mira.org /newsletr/nlspr99/rhac.htm (309 words)

	Keith Devens - Weblog: Richard Hamming - "You and Your Research" \| Lambda the Ultimate - April 26, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Richard Hamming - "You and Your Research"
		LtU: Richard Hamming - "You and Your Research" (to read).
	keithdevens.com /weblog/archive/2005/Apr/26/you-and-your-research (122 words)

	The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
		I (Larry Frazier, who (with R. Hamming's permission) scanned this and put it online) was pleased to note that 58 people visited this essay in a recent 2-month period.
		Hamming, Digital Filters, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ., 1977.
		Hamming, Coding and Information Theory, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ., 1980.
	www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov /~toms/Hamming.unreasonable.html (6763 words)

	LtU Classic Archives
		Hamming is the guy behind Hamming Numbers, so his views must be on topic for LtU
		Richard Gabriel has some interesting articles about new language acceptance at http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html.
		Hamming's question cannot be answered by redefining the notion of what belongs in a field itself.
	lambda-the-ultimate.org /classic/message3832.html (5509 words)

	Richard Hamming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Richard Wesley Hamming, mathematician, pioneer computer scientist, and professor, died of a heart attack on January 7, 1998, in Monterey, California, at the age of 82.
		His research career began at Bell Laboratories in the 1940s, in the early days of electronic computers, and included the invention of the Hamming error-correcting codes.
		He is survived by his wife Wanda, a niece, and a nephew.
	cm.bell-labs.com /cm/cs/alumni/hamming (88 words)

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		Where there was a question and I could identify the questioner, I have checked with each to ensure the accuracy of my interpretation of their remarks.
		Dick is one of the all time greats in the mathematics and computer science arenas, as I'm sure the audience here does not need reminding.
		(End of the General Research Colloquium Talk.) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF RICHARD* HAMMING* Richard W. Hamming was born February 11, 1915, in Chicago, Illinois.
	www.imsc.res.in /~rahul/articles/hamming.txt (12306 words)

	Richard Hamming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Richard Hamming, who made important contributions to communication theory and computing, died in Monterey, Ca on Wed, Jan 7.
		He made the oft quoted statement, " The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers".
		An extended obituary is given in the NYTimes of Sunday, Jan 11.
	www.csc.fi /math_topics/Mail/NANET98-1/msg00020.html (58 words)

	Richard Hamming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	richard_hamming - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word richard hamming:
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		Hamming, Richard, Richard Hamming : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=richard_hamming&loc=resrd (83 words)

	Ric from FOLDOC
		Richard Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp and OOP community, with years of contributions to standardisation.
		He resigned from the AI lab at MIT so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms.
		In artificial intelligence, an object which cannot be completely described or represented but about which assertions can be made.
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	Richard Cumyn - Roe effect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	You and Your Research
		Alan G. Chynoweth: Greetings colleagues, and also to many of our former colleagues from Bell Labs who, I understand, are here to be with us today on what I regard as a particularly felicitous occasion.
		I think I last met him - it must have been about ten years ago - at a rather curious little conference in Dublin, Ireland where we were both speakers.
		I had computing in research and for 10 years I kept telling my management, ``Get that !and@#% machine out of research.
	www.cs.virginia.edu /~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html (12176 words)

	Richard Hamming - FOLDOC Definition
		His work on the IBM 650 leading to the development in 1956 of the L2 programming language.
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	www.nightflight.com /foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?Richard+Hamming (312 words)

	Amazon.com: Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn: Books: Richard W. Hamming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		by Richard W. Hamming "The purpose of this course is to prepare you for your technical future..." (more)
		Like every other Hamming book I've read this book is underedited and has a significant number of ridiculous typos (missing words, extra words, missing punctiation, etc.), but still, publishing snafus notwithstanding, the book's a very worthy read.
		Hamming had a long and distinguished career and he shares his insights in a very generous, friendly, and straighforward manner; the result is a paragon of no-bs literature that should be on everyone's required-reading list.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9056995006?v=glance (1111 words)

	Hamm from FOLDOC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g.
		Nearby terms: Hamilton's problem « hammer « Hamming code « Hamming distance » Hamming, Richard » hamster » Han character
		Nearby terms: hammer « Hamming code « Hamming distance « Hamming, Richard » hamster » Han character » HAND
	foldoc.org /?query=Hamm (152 words)

	W. Richard Stevens' Home Page
		Here is a wonderful biography and obituary of Hamming (6 pages of PostScript), which includes a nice summary of his major accomplishments.
		I will never forget having learned about digital filters from the classic Digital Signal Processing books of the 1970s (Oppenheim and Schafer, etc.) and then finding Hamming's Digital Filters book, and wondering why all the classic texts made the topic so hard to understand when Hamming could make it so easy to understand.
		Some readers have told me that they find that my books make a complicated subject (such as network programming) easy to understand--if that is true, then it is due to the influence of writers like Richard Hamming and Brian Kernighan.
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