William Kahan

William Morton Kahan
Kahan in 2008
Born (1933-06-05) June 5, 1933 (age 91)
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Known forIEEE 754
Kahan summation algorithm
AwardsTuring Award (1989)
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award[1] (2000)
National Academy of Engineering
ACM Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Computer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Thesis Gauss–Seidel Methods Of Solving Large Systems Of Linear Equations  (1958)
Doctoral advisorByron Alexander Griffith
Doctoral studentsJames 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]

  1. ^ "IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 24, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Haigh, Thomas (1989). "William ("Velvel") Morton Kahan". A. M. Turing Award. Retrieved 2017-05-27.

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