Via Slashdot, this year marks the 60th anniversary of the venerable Hamming code. Arriving just two years after Shannon's seminal paper, the Hamming codes were the first nontrivial error-correcting code, and Hamming's contribution to the theory of error correcting codes (using metrics which are now known as Hamming distance and Hamming weight) are still taught today.
Here (pdf) is Hamming's original paper (from BSTJ), and here is my Hamming code lecture from last spring's information theory course:
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