Awards and Professional Recognition
- Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery, 1968.
- Fellow of the IEEE, 1968.
- IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, 1979.
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1980.
- Harold Pender Award, University of Pennsylvania, 1981.
- IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, 1988.
- Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1994.
- Basic Research Award, Eduard Rhein Foundation, 1996.
- Certificate of Merit, Franklin Institute, 1996
The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, named after him, is an award given annually by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), for "exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems and technology", and he was the first recipient of this medal.
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