Editing Richard Hamming (section)

== Awards and professional recognition ==
* [[Turing Award]], [[Association for Computing Machinery]], 1968.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=140 |title=A. M. Turing Award |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]] |access-date=February 5, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212132624/http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=140 |archive-date=December 12, 2009 }}</ref>
*{{Awards|award=[[IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award]]|year=1979|title="For introduction of error correcting codes, pioneering work in operating systems and programming languages, and the advancement of numerical computation."|role=|name=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/piore_rl.pdf |title=IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients |publisher=[[IEEE]] |access-date=March 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124232834/http://ieee.org/documents/piore_rl.pdf |archive-date=November 24, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
* Member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]], 1980.<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]] |access-date=February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Harold Pender Award]], [[University of Pennsylvania]], 1981.<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]] |access-date=February 5, 2011 |archive-date=February 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222032929/http://www.seas.upenn.edu/about-seas/lectures/pender.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal]], 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/hamming_rl.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620000223/http://ieee.org/documents/hamming_rl.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 20, 2010 |title=IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients |publisher=[[IEEE]] |access-date=February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* Fellow of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]], 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fellows.acm.org/homepage.cfm?alpha=H&srt=alpha |title=ACM Fellows – H |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]] |access-date=February 5, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124181313/http://fellows.acm.org/homepage.cfm?alpha=H&srt=alpha |archive-date=January 24, 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Eduard Rhein Award|Basic Research Award]], [[Eduard Rhein Foundation]], 1996.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eduard-rhein-stiftung.de/html/Preistraeger_e.html |title=Award Winners (chronological) |publisher=[[Eduard Rhein Foundation]] |access-date=February 5, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718233021/http://www.eduard-rhein-stiftung.de/html/Preistraeger_e.html |archive-date=July 18, 2011 }}</ref>
<!-- * [[The Franklin Institute Awards|Certificate of Merit]], [[Franklin Institute]], 1996 -->

The [[IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal]], named after him, is an award given annually by the [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] (IEEE), for "exceptional contributions to [[information sciences]], [[information systems|systems]] and [[information technology|technology]]", and he was the first recipient of this medal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/hamming.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407141828/http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/hamming.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 7, 2010 |title=IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal |publisher=[[IEEE]] |access-date=February 5, 2011}}</ref> The reverse side of the medal depicts a Hamming parity check matrix for a Hamming error-correcting code.{{sfn|Morgan|1998|p=972}}