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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).
+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).
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).
-See: http://directory
.google
.com/Top/Computers/History/Pioneers/Neumann,_John_von/
+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 denotate an atomic bomb to cause the most damage
.
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+See: http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/History/Pioneers/Neumann,_John_von/
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