William Morton Kahan | |
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![]() Kahan in 2008 | |
Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | June 5, 1933
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]
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