Subject: The world”s most powerful computer goes to work on the problems of tomorrow An average human being on a good day might be able to add or subtract perhaps two or three numbers in a second. The ...

Our understanding is defined by the lens through which we examine things, and John von Neumann looked at problems through very high power magnification. An example was his comment at the first ...

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John von Neumann (December 28, 1903 - February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-German mathematician and polymath who was a pioneer of the modern digital computer and the application of operator theory to ...

The Man from the Future. By Ananyo Bhattacharya. Allen Lane; 368 pages; £20. To be published in America in February by W.W. Norton & Company; $30 IN 1945, WHILE in a state of exhaustion, the ...

In 1948-49, mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and engineer John von Neumann introduced the world to his idea of “Universal Assemblers,” a species of self-replicating robots. Von Neumann’s ...

Here's the plot: "John von Neumann, one of the most incredible Hungarian-born scientists of all time, was named Man of the Century by the Financial Times in 1999. Among other scientific works, Neumann ...

Jorge Nocedal, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern Engineering, has received the John von Neumann Theory Prize from the Institute for ...

In the heart of Manchester, UK, a groundbreaking event took place in 1948: the first modern computer, known as the Manchester Baby, ran its very first program. The Baby’s ability to execute stored ...

Hungarian-born John von Neumann (1903-1957), an internationally renowned mathematician, promoted a theoretical design for a computer in the 1940s. He envisioned the stored program concept, whereby ...

December 28, 2003 marked the 100th birthday of John von Neumann. Since I missed writing about that anniversary, here’s to the 110 years since that prodigy entered the world. A lot of brilliant people ...