Series: Richard W. Hamming Collection (NPS-018)
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Archival Collection
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The library's Richard W. Hamming collection includes his annotated papers from 1947-1997, scientific medals and awards such as the Piore Award, Turing Prize and IEEE Hamming Medal, lecture videos, diaries and photographs.
A finding aid to the Richard W. Hamming Collection is available: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/66774
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Publication Self-Correcting Codes -- Summary(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1947) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox LibraryPublication Some Methods of Solving Hyperbolic and Parabolic Partial Differential Equations(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1949) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox LibraryPublication Hamming, Learning to Learn: Systems Engineering, 30 May 1995 [video](Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1995-05-30) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library; Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)Parables are often more effective than is a straight statement, so let me begin with a parable. A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the mason replied, "I am making stones." He asked a stone carver what he was doing, "I am carving a gargoyle." And so it went, each person said in detail what they were doing. Finally he came to an old woman who was sweeping the ground. She said, "I am helping build the cathedral."Publication Learning to Learn: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Session 5:(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1990) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library; Naval Postgraduate School; Computer Science (CS)Publication Nike Trajectory Computations -- Case 26500(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1948-08-26) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox LibraryPublication Hamming, Learning to Learn: Information Theory, 25 April 1995 [video](Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1995-04-25) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library; Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)Information Theory was created by C. E. Shannon in the late 40's. The management of Bell Telephone Labs wanted him to call it "Communication Theory" as that is a far more accurate name, but for obvious publicity reasons "Information Theory" has a much greater impact - this Shannon chose and so it is known to this day. The title suggests that the theory deals with information - and therefore it must be important since we are entering more and more deeply into the information age. Hence I shall go through a few main results, not with rigorous proofs of complete generality, but rather intuitive proofs of special cases so that you will understand what information theory is and what it can and cannot do for you.Publication General Purpose System -- Case 20878-5(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1956-09-14) Hamming, Richard W.; Weiss, R.A.; Dudley Knox LibraryPublication Superintendent's Guest Lecture(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1990-04-30) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library; Naval Postgraduate School; Computer Science (CS)Publication Calculus Reform - Revisited(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1990-06) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox LibraryPublication Some Remarks on the Floating Point Solution of Simultaneous Linear Equations(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1968-06-27) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library