@cbrewster

Binary codes capable of correcting deletions, insertions and reversals.

. Soviet Physics Doklady, 10 (8): 707--710 (February 1966)Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, V163 No4 845-848 1965.

Abstract

Seems to be the first person to define what became known as the (simple) edit-distance and show it to be a metric. Paper mostly about constructing optimal codes to transmit such corrections.

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