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Biography
Richard W. Hamming received his namesake medal in 1988 "for exceptional and pioneering contributions to information sciences and systems, and for inspiring generations of researchers in these fields." He had a central role in the development of computer and computing science, and contributed significantly to the area of information science, which includes his error-correcting codes.