Science on the 1st of April 1950 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
01 Apr 1950 Richard Hamming	science	Richard Hamming (computer science) Publication of Richard Hamming's paper "Error detecting and error correcting codes", seminal in the construction of error detection and correction codesand from which Hamming code and the Hamming distance derive.	0

31st March 1950 2nd April 1950

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