Richard W. Hamming

Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was a pioneering American mathematician and computer scientist. He earned his PhD in 1942 and worked on the IBM machines for the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Later at Bell Labs, he invented the Hamming codes—a groundbreaking method for error detection and correction in digital data—which remain fundamental in telecommunications, storage […]