Richard Hamming
Richard Wesley Hamming, mathematician, pioneer computer scientist,
and professor, died of a heart attack on January 7, 1998,
in Monterey, California, at the age of 82.
His research career began at Bell Laboratories
in the 1940s, in the early days of electronic computers, and included the
invention of the Hamming error-correcting codes.
In the 1970s he shifted to teaching, and at
his death he was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of computer science
at the Naval Postgraduate School.
He is survived by his wife Wanda, a niece, and a nephew.
biography by Samuel P. Morgan, April 1998.
