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John von Neumann: Computer pioneer and nuclear strategist

"The Jewish genius mathematician John von Neumann is the mastermind behind today's computers. Essentially, he attached a CPU mimicking the human brain to a 'dumb calculator.' The first stored-program ...
NJBIZ

Von Neumann’s Souped-Up Supercomputer

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 ...
The New Republic

John von Neumann Thought He Had the Answers

Most anecdotes about von Neumann abide by this three-act structure: a question that baffles the best minds; their sweaty, pointless deliberations; von Neumann’s swift, soaring leap to the solution.
newswise

Theoretical Computer Scientists Awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize

Newswise — Computer Science Professors Christos Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis received the John von Neumann Theory Prize for their research in computational complexity theory that explores the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Computer Architecture Extending The Von Neumann Model With A Dedicated Reasoning Unit For Native Artificial General Intelligence (TU Munich, Pace U.)

A new technical paper titled “Augmenting Von Neumann’s Architecture for an Intelligent Future” was published by researchers at TU Munich and Pace University. “This work presents a novel computer ...