William Velvel Morton Kahan is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician 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."
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He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis."
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