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Richard W. Hamming
Richard W. Hamming
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Naval Postgraduate School, died January 7, 1998, of a heart attack in Monterey, California. Dick was born February 1 l, 1915, in Chicago, Illinois.
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In later interviews about these early days, he noted that even then, in spite of the primitive nature of those computers with their high relative error rates and their slow speeci, they were the forerunners of tools that would lead to fundamental changes in the way science would be done in the future. Dick left Los Alamos in 1946 to join the mathematics group at Bell Telephone Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
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While still at Bell Labs, Hamming continued his work on numerical analysis, numerical integration, and numerical filtering. His major works during this period include Introduction to Applied Numerical Analysis (~1971~ and Digital Filters ( 1977)
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Although modern computers have very reliable fundamental components, the huge number of such components, e.g. the bits in a computer's main memory, means that the probability of an erroneous result would be significant without Hamming Codes and similar codes that Hamming inspired.
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