William Morton Kahan | |
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 Kahan in 2008 | |
| Born | June 5, 1933 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Known for | IEEE 754 Kahan summation algorithm |
| Awards | Turing Award (1989) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award[1] (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 Ren-Cang Li |
William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis",[2] was named an ACM Fellow in 1994,[2] and inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.[2]
- ^ "IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 24, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ a b c Haigh, Thomas (1989). "William ("Velvel") Morton Kahan". A. M. Turing Award. Retrieved 2017-05-27.