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Alumnus honors legacy of iconic NPS Professor Richard W. Hamming


by MC2 Taylor Vencill  |  August 1, 2019


NPS alumnus Dr. Martin Mandelberg presents the Richard Wesley Hamming Legacy Project during a campus presentation, July 18. The 30-month project includes a select compilation of 30,000 pages of the iconic professor’s research findings, an online archive of lectures on video and much more.

Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) alumnus Dr. Martin Mandelberg has embarked on an effort to honor one of the 20th century’s greatest minds, esteemed computer scientist and mentor NPS Distinguished Professor Richard Wesley Hamming. Mandelberg offered an overview of his


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Hamming Legacy project during a special presentation in Reed Hall on the NPS campus, July 18.


Mandelberg, who was Hamming’s only doctoral advisee, reflected on Hamming’s teaching career and mentorship, which spanned 22 years at the university from 1976-1998. “He developed early on the skills, knowledge and insights to mentor people,” said Mandelberg. “He liked being the research mathematician that helped you with your problem. He was a perfect professor to help people with their master’s thesis because he could hop from problem to problem.


“You should be rewarded for what you attempt because there are things to be learned in failure, and Hamming knew that,” he continued.


Mandelberg obtained nearly 30,000 total pages of research findings in his developing of Hamming’s archive, taking 30 months to complete. He introduced an online archive of Hamming materials featuring digitally remastered videos of NPS classes taught by Hamming, and a preview of previously unavailable research findings, soon-to-be-available through the NPS archive, Calhoun.


“[Hamming] is a great role model to set the standard,” said Lt. Ashton Miller, an NPS electrical engineering student who is looking forward to the great resource that will be available to him and the rest of the student body in the near future.


“Hamming was a good and valued friend,” said Dr. Herschel Loomis, NPS Distinguished Professor and a colleague of Hamming. “One of the great privileges of my career was to be able to work with this intellectual giant on a daily basis.”


Hamming was one of the world’s most distinguished computer scientists, best known for his work in coding and information theory developing innovations known as the Hamming code and the Hamming spectral window. He was director of the Manhattan Project Computing Facility, and later at Bell Labs, he introduced error-correcting codes and performed pioneering work in operating systems and programing languages.

The donated contents of the Richard Wesley Hamming Legacy Project will join the current Richard W. Hamming Collection at the Dudley Knox Library that includes his annotated papers from 1947-1997, scientific medals and awards such as the Piore Award, Turing Prize and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Hamming Medal, lecture videos, diaries and photographs.


Richard Wesley Hamming in his signature red plaid jacket.

Richard Wesley Hamming in his signature red plaid jacket.

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Alumnus honors legacy of iconic NPS Professor Richard W. Hamming


MC2 Taylor Vencill  |  August 1, 2019


NPS alumnus Dr. Martin Mandelberg presents the Richard Wesley Hamming Legacy Project during a campus presentation, July 18. The 30-month project includes a select compilation of 30,000 pages of the iconic professor’s research findings, an online archive of lectures on video and much more.


Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) alumnus Dr. Martin Mandelberg has embarked on an effort to honor one of the 20th century’s greatest minds, esteemed computer scientist and mentor NPS Distinguished Professor Richard Wesley Hamming. Mandelberg offered an overview of his

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Hamming Legacy project during a special presentation in Reed Hall on the NPS campus, July 18.


Mandelberg, who was Hamming’s only doctoral advisee, reflected on Hamming’s teaching career and mentorship, which spanned 22 years at the university from 1976-1998.

“He developed early on the skills, knowledge and insights to mentor people,” said Mandelberg. “He liked being the research mathematician that helped you with your problem. He was a perfect professor to help people with their master’s thesis because he could hop from problem to problem.


“You should be rewarded for what you attempt because there are things to be learned in failure, and Hamming knew that,” he continued.

Mandelberg reviewed nearly 30,000 total pages of research findings in Hamming’s archive, taking 30 months to complete. He introduced an online archive of Hamming materials featuring digitally remastered videos of NPS classes taught by Hamming, and a preview of previously unavailable research findings, soon-to-be-available through the NPS archive, Calhoun.

“[Hamming] is a great role model to set the standard,” said Lt. Ashton Miller, an NPS electrical engineering student who is looking forward to the great resource that will be available to him and the rest of the student body in the near future.

“Hamming was a good and valued friend,” said Dr. Herschel Loomis, NPS Distinguished Professor and a colleague of Hamming. “One of the great privileges of my career was to be able to work with this intellectual giant on a daily basis.”

Hamming was one of the world’s most distinguished computer scientists, best known for his work in coding and information theory developing innovations known as the Hamming code and the Hamming spectral window. He was director of the Manhattan Project Computing Facility, and later at Bell Labs, he introduced error-correcting codes and performed pioneering work in operating systems and programing languages.

The donated contents of the Richard Wesley Hamming Legacy Project will join the current Richard W. Hamming Collection at the Dudley Knox Library that includes his annotated papers from 1947-1997, scientific medals and awards such as the Piore Award, Turing Prize and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Hamming Medal, lecture videos, diaries and photographs.mething interesting about your business here.

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