Awards and Honors
- 1999: The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal.
- 1998: A Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society, for "the invention of the Huffman minimum-length lossless data-compression code".
- 1981: Charter recipient of the Computer Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computer Society.
- 1973: The W. Wallace McDowell Award from the IEEE Computer Society.
- 1955: The Louis E. Levy Medal from the Franklin Institute for his doctoral thesis on sequential switching circuits.
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