IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
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The award was established in 1986 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is sponsored by Qualcomm, Inc. It is named after Richard W. Hamming, whose work has had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. His contributions include the invention of the Hamming code, and error-correcting code.
Recipients
The following people have received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal:
- 2023: Frank Kschischang
- 2022: Madhu Sudan
- 2021: Raymond W. Yeung
- 2020: Cynthia Dwork
- 2019: David Tse
- 2018: Erdal Arıkan
- 2017: Shlomo Shamai
- 2016: Abbas El Gamal
- 2015: Imre Csiszar
- 2014: Thomas Richardson and Rüdiger L. Urbanke
- 2013: Robert Calderbank
- 2012: Michael Luby, Amin Shokrollahi
- 2011: Toby Berger
- 2010: Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle
- 2009: Peter Franaszek
- 2008: Sergio Verdú
- 2007: Abraham Lempel
- 2006: Vladimir I. Levenshtein
- 2005: Neil J.A. Sloane
- 2004: Jack K. Wolf
- 2003: Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux
- 2002: Peter Elias
- 2001: A. G. Fraser
- 2000: Solomon W. Golomb
- 1999: David A. Huffman
- 1998: David D. Clark
- 1997: Thomas M. Cover
- 1996: Mark S. Pinsker
- 1995: Jacob Ziv
- 1994: Gottfried Ungerboeck
- 1993: Jorma J. Rissanen
- 1992: Lotfi A. Zadeh
- 1991: Elwyn R. Berlekamp
- 1990: Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth L. Thompson
- 1989: Irving S. Reed
- 1988: Richard W. Hamming
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