Hamming Richard

Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11th 1915 with Chicago - January 7th 1998 Monterey (California)) is a famous mathematician with whom one owes the famous Hamming code. It accepted the Prix Turing in 1968.

Richard Hamming was born with Chicago, it accepted his license at the University of Chicago in 1937, his control at the University of Nebraska in 1939 and finally his doctorate at the University of Illinois in 1942. He was professor at the University of Louisville when the Second world war began and he left his station to join the Projet Manhattan in 1945, programming one of the first digital calculators to calculate the solutions of the equations provided by the physicists of the project. The objective of the program was to discover if the detonation of a Nuclear weapon could put on fire the atmosphere. Calculations showed that would not be the case, which made it possible the the United States to carry out an atmospheric test the New Mexico of launching two bombs on the Japan.

Later of 1946 to 1976, he worked for the Laboratoires Beautiful where he worked with Claude Shannon.

He was the founder of the “Association for Computing Machinery” of which he was also the president.

Quotations

  • “the machines should function. People should think” ( Machines should work. People should think ).
  • “There are wavelengths which people cannot see, there are noises that people cannot hear, and perhaps that the computers have thoughts which people cannot have. ” ( There are wavelengths that people boat see, there are sounds that people boat hear, and maybe computers cuts thoughts that people boat think. )

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