biography
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Hamming, Richard W(esley)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1915–98)
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| biography:
| Computer scientist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Head of the Computing Science Research Department, Bell Laboratories (1946), he specialized in problem-solving on large-scale computers and computer design. Editor of several journals, he wrote Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers (1962) and is founder of the Association for Computing Machinery. |
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