Richard W. Hamming Collection (NPS-018)

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Richard W. Hamming Collection (NPS-018)

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Hamming, Learning to Learn: Unreliable Data, 26 May 1995 [video]
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1995-05-26) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library
It has been my experience, as well as many others who have looked; data is generally much less accurate than it is advertised to be. This is not a trivial point - we depend on initial data for many decisions, as well as for the input data for simulations which result in decisions. Since the errors are of so many kinds and I have no coherent theory to explain them all, I have therefore to resort to isolated examples and generalities from them.
Hamming, Learning to Learn: Artificial Intelligence (AI) III, 13 April 1995 [video]
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1995-04-13) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library
I suggest that you pause and have two discussions with yourself on the topic, "Can Machines Think?" Then review why it is important to come to your own evaluation of what machines can and cannot do in your future.
Statistical Estimation of Error Propagation through Multiplication and Division
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1970-10) Hamming, Richard W.; Metropolis, N.; Dudley Knox Library
On Massively Parallel Computers
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1993-10) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library
A Theory of Self-Checking and Self-Correcting Codes -- Case 20878
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1948-06-10) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library
The Future of Computing
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1987-01-29) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library
Learning to Learn: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Session 27:
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1990) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library; Computer Science (CS)
Hamming, Learning to Learn: Digital Filters I, 27 April 1995 [video]
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1995-04-27) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library
Now that we have examined computers and how they represent information, let us turn to how computers process information. We can, of course, only examine a very few of the things they do, and will concentrate on basics per usual. Much of what computers process are signals from various sources, and we have already discussed why they are often in the form of a stream of numbers from an equally spaced sampling system. Linear processing, which is the only one I have time for in this course, implies digital filters. To illustrate "style" and how things actually happen in real life, I propose to tell you first how I became involved in them, and how I proceeded.
A scientist's life: a basis for an evening talk
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1987-09-17) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library; Computer Science (CS)
What could I say that might be of interest to you? It finally came to me that I could talk on what it is to be a scientist, something that you might be interested in and on which I have some knowledge that you may not have. The rule of good writing is to write about what you know.
On Responsibility
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1982) Hamming, Richard W.; Dudley Knox Library