Hamming Resources

Hamming Resources

Professor Richard W. Hamming spent the last decades of his life at 黑料吃瓜网 (NPS) teaching young officers how to think and learn.  This page provides links to his recorded lecture series , along with much ongoing NPS work that preserves and extends his legacy.

Richard Wesley Hamming (1915-1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing (or Hamming bound), concepts, and the Hamming distance. 

, United States, 1968.  Often referred to as the Nobel Prize for Computer Science, the Turing Award is given for major contributions of lasting importance to computing.  Citation: "For his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes."

is awarded for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology.  The medal was established in 1988 with Richard Hamming as initial namesake awardee.  Citation: "For exceptional and pioneering contributions to information sciences and systems, and for inspiring generations of researchers in these fields."
 

Life-Long Learners

  •  offered by NPS annually. 
    • Turing Award winner Richard W. Hamming's original course 鈥淟earning to Learn: Art of Doing Science and Engineering鈥� has been fully digitized and placed online. This course presents distilled career insights of a preeminent thinker, spread across a complete range of topics in modern science.  Learning how to pursue novel research is presented by example.
    • Includes Learning to Learn book chapters and synopsis presentations.
    • Primary site is .
    • Legacy site is .
  • offers our best-quality video encodings produced to date.
    • Also linked on .
  • at NPS Calhoun Library.
  • Hamming archive for version control of course assets and .
  • for excellence in teaching and interdisciplinary research.
  • NPS Hamming Supercomputer for High-Performance Computing (HPC)
     

Developers

  • Additional work on Hamming Archive is always slowly steadily progressing.
  • is an interim-storage working area for large files.
     

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