Richard Hamming

Professor Richard Wesley Hamming, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1942; M.S., University of Nebraska, 1939; B.S., University of Chicago in 1937), was a mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window (described in Section 5.8 of his book Digital Filters), Hamming numbers, sphere-packing (or hamming bound) and the Hamming distance.

Hamming was a professor at the University of Louisville during World War II, and left to work on the Manhattan Project in 1945, programming one of the earliest electronic digital computers to calculate the solution to equations provided by the project's

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Isaac Asimov

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Steve Klabnik

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William Zinsser

William Knowlton Zinsser is an American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher. He began his career as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, where he worked as a feature writer, drama editor, film critic, and editorial writer. He has been a longtime contributor to leading magazines.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Alexander Solzenitsyn (English, alternate)
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Tyler Cowen

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Richards J. Heuer Jr.

Richards "Dick" J. Heuer, Jr. is a former CIA veteran of 45 years and most known for his work on analysis of competing hypotheses and his book, Psychology of Intelligence Analysis.
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Graham Hutton

I'm from Glasgow in Scotland, and received a BSc and PhD in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow. I then spent a few years in research positions in Gothenburg and Utrecht, before moving to Nottingham where I am now Professor of Computer Science. I'm married to Annette, and we have two lovely boys. In my spare time I enjoy cars, cooking, and football. Both of our boys play in football teams, and we are all season ticket holders for Nottingham Forest.

I'm Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, where I co-lead the Functional Programming Lab and am the Director of Research.

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