Richard W. Hamming

(1915-1998) lived in Lincoln. Computer scientist, pioneer in digital technology, he invented techniques that allow computers to correct their own errors (known as Hamming Code) in 1950, which led to the development in 1956 of a programming language which has evolved into the high-level computer languages used to program modern computers; elected to National Academy of Engineering in 1974. Consult New York Times obituary, January 11, 1998, p. 29 and Computer, Vol 31 (March 1998) 86-87 and American National Biography, Sup 2, (2005) 220-221.

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