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William Kahan

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Gender Male
Age 90
Date of birth June 5,1933
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born Toronto
Canada
Notable student James Demmel
Scott B. Baden
Known forIEEE 754
Kahan summation algorithm
Awards Turing Award
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
NationalityCanadian
Education University of Toronto
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William "Velvel" Morton Kahan is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis", was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, and inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.

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