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 ...

Episode: 2487 John von Neumann’s ideas on the similarities and differences of computers and brains. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić talks about brains, computers, and John von Neumann.

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 ...

Inventor and proponent of the "stored program" concept, von Neumann applied his idea to the logical design of a computer infrastructure that became known as the "von Neumann architecture." One of the ...

Ceruzzi, Paul E. 2000. "Nothing New Since von Neumann: A Historian Looks at Computer Architecture, 1945– 1995." In The First Computers: History and Architectures ...