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Patents by Inventor Richard W. Hamming. Richard W. Hamming has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Richard Hamming. 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 ...
- Richard Wesley Hamming, February 11, 1915, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- Mathematics
- Waldemar Trjitzinsky
- Some Problems in the Boundary Value Theory of Linear Differential Equations (1942)
He published some seventy-five technical articles and held three patents. Error-correcting Codes. Dick is most famous for inventing the Hamming error-correcting codes [1] and for the concept of Hamming distance, which is central to coding theory.
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Jan 7, 1998 · A.M. TURING AWARD LAUREATES BY... ALPHABETICAL LISTING. YEAR OF THE AWARD. RESEARCH SUBJECT. Richard W. Hamming. United States – 1968. CITATION. For his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes. Short Annotated. Bibliography. ACM Turing Award. Lecture. Research. Subjects. Additional.
Dec 20, 2018 · In 1951 he invented and patented error detecting and error correcting codes, This work started a branch of information theory. Hamming codes are used in many modern computers. In numerical analysis he produced many new techniques. The Hamming window for smoothing data prior to fourier analysis is still widely used today.
Feb 7, 2024 · Richard Wesley Hamming (born Feb. 11, 1915, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 7, 1998, Monterey, Calif.) American mathematician. Hamming received a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Illinois. In 1945 he was the chief mathematician for the Manhattan Project. After World War II, he joined Claude E. Shannon at Bell Laboratories, where ...
Nov 25, 2010 · Technology Industry. In 1950 Bell Labs researcher Richard W. Hamming made a discovery that would lay an important foundation for the entire modern computing and communications industries. He...