Error-correcting codes (Hamming, Reed-Solomon)
Códigos correctores de errores (Hamming, Reed-Solomon)
- Date
- 1950-1960 · confidence high
- Place
- Bell Labs, Murray Hill (Hamming, 1950); MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, United States (Reed-Solomon, 1960)
- Credited to
- Richard Hamming; Irving Reed and Gustave Solomon
- People
- 👤 Gustave Solomon1930–1996👤 Irving Stoy Reed1923–2012👤 Richard Hamming1915–1998
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Codes that add calculated redundancy to data to detect and correct transmission or storage errors. They protect CDs, space probes, QR codes and computer memory.
What it led to
- Reliable communications with probes billions of kilometres away
- Robust optical discs, hard drives and flash memory
- The turbo and LDPC codes of 4G and 5G
Built on
Made possible
- Compact disc1982
- QR code1994
- space communications
- 5G