William Kahan
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis." He was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, and added to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.
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| Born | June 5, 1933 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Known for | IEEE 754 Kahan summation algorithm |
| Awards | Turing Award (1989) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2000) National Academy of Engineering ACM Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics Computer Science |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Gauss-Seidel Methods Of Solving Large Systems Of Linear Equations (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Byron Alexander Griffith |
| Doctoral students | James Demmel |
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