William Kahan
William Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis." He was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, and added to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.
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| Born | June 5, 1933 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Known for | IEEE 754 Kahan summation algorithm |
| Awards | Turing Award (1989) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (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 students | James Demmel |
Other websites
- William Kahan's home page
- portrait picture of Kahan (on page 5)
- Paranoia for modern graphics processing units (GPUs)
- Paranoia source code in multiple languages
- IEEE 1985. IEEE standard for binary floating-point arithmetic. ACM SIGPLAN Notices 22, 2 (Feb.), 9–25
- An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point, 1998-Feb-20 [1]
- A Conversation with William Kahan, Dr. Dobb's Journal November, 1997