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- ↑ "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients" (PDF). IEEE . Retrieved May 29, 2011.
- ↑ "Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation". IEEE Information Theory Society . Retrieved July 14, 2011.
