He had invented a code for correcting errors in communication and the Hamming code was born. CIO Blast from the Past takes a journey through 60 years of information theory and discovers how the ...

You may not know the name [Richard Hamming], but you definitely use some of his work. While working for Bell Labs, he developed Hamming codes — the parent of a class of codes that detect, and ...

For example, application software code, data structures, parameters, lookup tables, etc., are very sensitive and any content alteration may end up with catastrophic errors.

Hamming’s work on block codes was followed about ten years later by the Reed-Solomon code which is found nearly everywhere now.