William Kahan

William Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis." He was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, and added to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.

Other websites
 William Kahan's home page
 portrait picture of Kahan (on page 5)
 Paranoia for modern graphics processing units (GPUs) 
 Paranoia source code in multiple languages
 IEEE 1985. IEEE standard for binary floating-point arithmetic. ACM SIGPLAN Notices 22, 2 (Feb.), 9–25
 An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point, 1998-Feb-20 
 A Conversation with William Kahan, Dr. Dobb's Journal November, 1997

Category:Turing Award winners
Category:1933 births
Category:Living people
Category:Canadian computer scientists
Category:Scientists from Toronto
Category:University of Toronto alumni
Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty