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== Bell Labs ==
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Στα εργαστήρια της Bell ο Χάμινγκ βρίσκονταν για ένα διάστημα στο ίδιο γραφείο με τον [[Κλοντ Σάνον]] (Claude Shannon). Άνηκαν στο Ερευνητικό Τμήμα Μαθηματικών, στο οποίο περιλαμβάνονταν και άλλοι σημαντικοί επιστήμονες από το Λος Άλαμος, όπως οι Donald Ling και Brockway McMillan. Οι Σάνον, Χάμινγκ, Ling και McMillan αυτοαποκαλούνταν οι "Νεότουρκοι",<ref name="ACM" /> διότι -σύμφωνα με τον Χάμινγκ- έκαναν ανορθόδοξα πράγματα με ανορθόδοξο τρόπο, προκαλώντας διάφορα προβλήματα αλλά φέρνοντας όμως παράλληλα σημαντικά αποτελέσματα.<ref name="IEEE" />
{{quote|The way mathematics is currently taught it is exceedingly dull. In the calculus book we are currently using on my campus, I found no single problem whose answer I felt the student would care about! The problems in the text have the dignity of solving a crossword puzzle – hard to be sure, but the result is of no significance in life.<ref name="ACM" /> }}
Hamming attempted to rectify the situation with a new text, ''Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics'' (1985).<ref name="ACM" /> In 1993, he remarked that "when I left BTL, I knew that that was the end of my scientific career. When I retire from here, in another sense, it's really the end."<ref name="IEEE" /> And so it proved. He became [[Professor Emeritus]] in June 1997,<ref name="obit">{{cite news |url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Obits2/Hamming_NYTimes.html |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |last=Fisher |first=Lawrence |date=January 11, 1998 |title=Richard Hamming, 82, Dies; Pioneer in Digital Technology |accessdate=August 30, 2014 }}</ref> and delivered his last lecture in December 1997, just a few weeks before his death from a [[heart attack]] on January 7, 1998.{{sfn|Morgan|1998|p=972}} He was survived by his wife Wanda.<ref name="obit" />
== Βραβεύσεις και τιμητικές διακρίσεις ==
* 1968 - [[TuringΒραβείο AwardΤούρινγκ]] (Turing Award), [[Association for Computing Machinery]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=140 |title=A. M. Turing Award |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]] |accessdate=February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* 1979 - [[IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/piore_rl.pdf |title=IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients |publisher=[[IEEE]] |accessdate=February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* 1980 - MemberΜέλος ofτης Εθνικής Ακαδημίας theΜηχανικής [[(National Academy of Engineering]])<ref name="NAE">{{cite web|url=http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/29268.aspx |title=NAE Members Directory – Dr. Richard W. Hamming |publisher=[[National Academy of Engineering]] |accessdate=February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* 1981 - [[Harold Pender Award]], [[UniversityΠανεπιστήμιο ofτης PennsylvaniaΠενσυλβάνια]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seas.upenn.edu/about-seas/lectures/pender.php |title=The Harold Pender Award |publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science|School of Engineering and Applied Science]], [[University of Pennsylvania]] |accessdate=February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* 1988 - [[IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/hamming_rl.pdf |title=IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients |publisher=[[IEEE]] |accessdate=February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* 1994 - Fellow of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fellows.acm.org/homepage.cfm?alpha=H&srt=alpha |title=ACM Fellows – H |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]] |accessdate=February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* 1996 - [[Eduard Rhein Award|Basic Research Award]], [[Eduard Rhein Foundation]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eduard-rhein-stiftung.de/html/Preistraeger_e.html |title=Award Winners (chronological) |publisher=[[Eduard Rhein Foundation]] |accessdate=February 5, 2011}}</ref>
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