John von Neumann stands as a towering figure in the annals of 20th-century science, distinguished by his profound ...

Like Turing, Von Neumann was fascinated by the computer’s potential for autonomous behaviour. Whereas Turing speculated on the ability of a computer to think, Von Neumann pondered on the power of ...

John von Neumann (December 28, 1903 - February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-German mathematician and polymath who was a pioneer of the modern digital computer and the application of operator theory to ...

An average human being on a good day might be able to add or subtract perhaps two or three numbers in a second. The new supercomputer that has just been installed at the John von Neumann Center ...

In early 1956, Marina von Neumann, daughter of world-renowned mathematician John von Neumann, brought her fiancé, Robert Whitman, home to Princeton, N.J., to meet her famous father.

In the heart of Manchester, UK, a groundbreaking event took place in 1948: the first modern computer, known as the Manchester Baby, ran its very first program. The Baby’s ability to execute ...

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 ...

Theoretical computer scientists awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize Christos Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis honored for leading contributions in operations research and management.

On Dec. 28, 1903, John von Neumann was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. His numerous scientific contributions shaped the future of computer science.

The UCSB von Neumann quantum computer. The small black squares are the superconducting qubits, and the meandering lines are the memory resonators. (Photo: Erik Lucero) ...

Named after John von Neumann — a mathematician, pioneer in quantum physics, and member of the Manhattan Project — the prize is awarded annually to a scholar (or scholars) who has made fundamental, ...