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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/

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