von Neumann

The computers stored program capacity, which would come to be known as von Neumann architecture, was the prototype for todays digital computer.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

The computers stored program capacity, which would come to be known as von Neumann architecture, was the prototype for todays digital computer.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

Maynard Smith credits Price with first having the brilliant idea of extending game theory from the traditional form pioneered by von Neumann—rational decision making by brains when there are conflicts of interest—to decisions made by natural selection instead.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

The mathematician Stanislaw Ulam gave von Neumann advice on how to make his self-reproducing machine simpler.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

To explore the difference, von Neumann wanted to design a machine that was complex enough to reproduce itself.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

As soon as von Neumann had died, the institute always suspicious of anything the least bit practical had donated the computer to a museum, the Smithsonian Institution.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

The answer certainly is that von Neumann did understand the promise and peril of these ideas, just as some builders of the Manhattan Project assumed good would come nuclear power from the bomb's technology.

Hurricane Irene and Steve Jobs Daniel Henninger 2011

Others seized on this approach too, notably the RAND Corporation, for which von Neumann had been a consultant.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

Information became the keyword for the middle of the 20th century also, with cybernetics (Weiner), Communication Theory (Shannon), and early computing (von Neumann and Turing) all emerging with rapidity.

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: An Age of Radical Seeking (Part One) Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2010

Information became the keyword for the middle of the 20th century also, with cybernetics (Weiner), Communication Theory (Shannon), and early computing (von Neumann and Turing) all emerging with rapidity.

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: An Age of Radical Seeking (Part One) Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2010