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William Kahan
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadianmathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley.
He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis."[2]
Biography
Born to a Canadian Jewish family,[2] he attended the University of Toronto, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1954, his master's degree in 1956, and his Ph.D.
in 1958, all in the field of mathematics. Kahan is now emeritus professor of mathematics and of electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley.
Kahan was the primary architect behind the IEEE 754-1985 standard for floating-point computation (and its radix-independent follow-on, IEEE 854).
He has been called "The Father of Floating Point", since he was instrumental in creating the original IEEE 754 specificatio