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 ...

Just when modern computers (digital, electronic, and programmable) were being invented, John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine wrote a paper to illustrate the mathematical analyses that they believed ...

The Baby’s ability to execute stored programs, developed with guidance from John von Neumann’s theory, marks it as a pioneer in the digital age.

The roots of the modern computer virus go back to 1949, when computer pioneer John von Neumann presented a paper on the "Theory and Organization of Complicated Automata," in which he postulated ...

Manhattan Project: John von Neumann Naomi Alderman dives into the amazing intellect of John von Neumann, physicist, mathematician, economist, computer scientist and visionary.

For sheer brilliance, it was hard to beat John von Neumann. An architect of the modern computer and inventor of game theory, von Neumann was legendary, above all, for his lightning-fast mental ...

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. The eminent ...

Von Neumann figured out instead how to store programs as software in computer memory, which would become the basic architecture for how modern computers work.

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, ...

A famous math problem that has vexed mathematicians for decades has finally met an elegant solution. Mathematicians have now described a geometric solution for the von Neumann-Day problem, first ...