Neil Sloane

Name: Neil James Alexander Sloane

Born: October 10, 1939, in Beaumaris, Wales

Computer-related contributions

• British-U.S. mathematician who has major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing.
• Creator and maintainer of the OEIS (On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences).

Significant publications

• Self-Dual Codes and Invariant Theory (2006).
• Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Applications (1999).
• Sphere Packings, Lattices, and Groups (1998).
• The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (1995).
• A Handbook of Integer Sequences (1973).

Honors and awards

• Chauvenet Prize (1979).
• IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2005).
• Claude E. Shannon Award (1998).