Richard Hamming, author of The Art of Doing Science, was...

a computer scientist who worked on the Manhattan project responsible for a number of innovations in computer coding and communications

The inventor of the "Hamming light bulb."

an instructor at the post$-$graduate Naval technical school who believed that math should be taught in a way that is focused soley on problems, and not at all related to "real life."

a philosopher who argued for engineers taking reponsibility for their design choices