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-A mathematician who was an early pioneer of ComputerScience, who developed the concept of an abstract machine, with a [RAM] separated from the [CPU] by a [Bus], and much work on automata (see FiniteStateMachine) and [RandomNumberGenerator]s. (Of course, he didn't do all this by himself - some of his work built on AlanTuring's ideas)
. Another area he is well-known for is [Game Theory]
.
+A mathematician who was an early pioneer of ComputerScience, who developed the concept of an abstract machine, with a [RAM] separated from the [CPU] by a [Bus], and much work on automata (see FiniteStateMachine) and [RandomNumberGenerator]s. (Of course, he didn't do all this by himself - some of his work built on AlanTuring's ideas.)
Another area he is well-known for is GameTheory
.
Modern computer designs are sometimes known as the "von Neumann architecture", or perhaps "the von Neumann bottleneck" when talking about all data travelling back and forth along the [Bus] between the [CPU] and the [RAM] and [HardDisk](s).
He was a Hungarian who left Europe for the United States as he saw World War 2 become inevitable. During the war he did calculations to determine the optimal altitude to detonate an atomic bomb to cause the most damage.
-See: http://directory
.google
.com/Top
/Computers/History/Pioneers/Neumann,_John_von/
+See also
:
+* [OpenDirectory listing on John Von Neumann |
http://www
.dmoz
.org
/Computers/History/Pioneers/Neumann,_John_von/]
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