If you went to a group of college seniors in computer science, how many of them would have ever heard about Grace Hooper? First classmen in the Naval Academy? (I would sure hope that the U.S. Usually there is a theorem or algorithm which bears the name of an individual like Dijkstra's algorithm, but who really knows much about Edsger Dijkstra, the guy who came up with the concept in the first place, or for that matter even knows the names behind the LZW compression algorithm? There are many such individuals who if you have studied your history of computing that really ought to be much better known but little is really talked about even in computing circles. I'm sure a whole bunch of people know about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, but their impact upon computing and information theory is comparatively minor compared to Richard Hamming. An interesting read, about a little-known but fundamental element of information theory." This article looks back on the history of Hamming codes, their applications, and includes interviews with Todd Moon, Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Utah State University and David MacKay, Professor of natural philosophy in the department of Physics at the University of Cambridge and chief scientific adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Hamming circuit coder code#
Hamming code was the first discovery in an immense field called coding theory. He speculated the 'special codes' he proposed - which became known as Hamming codes - would only need to be applied to systems requiring unattended operation for long periods or 'extremely large and tightly integrated' systems where a single failure would incapacitate the entire installation. Hamming wrote about how self-checking circuits help eliminate errors in telephone central offices. Hamming made a discovery that would lay an important foundation for the modern computing and communications industries - coming up with a method for performing computing operations on a large scale without errors. Swandives writes "In 1950 Bell Labs researcher Richard W.
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