William aspray john von neumann biography

John von Neumann was a polymath who made several major developments to the early evolution of computers.

John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing William Aspray, William Aspray provides the first broad and detailed account.

John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing William Aspray, William Aspray provides the first broad and detailed account.

BIOGRAPHY John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing, William Aspray.

He made major contributions to quantum mechanics and mathematical physics and in began a new and all-too-short career in computer science.

John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing, William Aspray, William Aspray provides the first broad and detailed account of von Neumann's many.

John von Neumann () was unquestionably one of the most brilliant scientists of the twentieth century.

On the engineering side, after discussions with John Mauchly‏‎, J. Presper Eckert and Herman Goldstine of the ENIAC project, about what to do next, he produced the famous First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, which set the direction for all further work on stored-program computers.

(Which of them contributed exactly what to the document will probably never be known for certain, unfortunately.) It was probably a large influence on Alan Turing's work on the Automatic Computing Engine; and almost certainly was on Maurice Wilkes' design of the EDSAC.

He then played a lead role in the creation of the IAS computer, which was the inspiration for many early computers (too many to list here), which were clones of it.

On the theory side, he single-handedly founded the field of finite automata, and did much important early work in it., including on self-replicati