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John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing William Aspray
Publisher: The MIT Press

John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing (History of. Our history is rich with mathematicians who helped advance our collective understanding of math, but there are a few standouts whose brilliant work and intuitions pushed things in huge leaps and bounds. All of these lived in the 20th century. The study of von Neumann's model of an expanding economy continues to interest mathematical economists with interests in computational economics. $150 John von Neumann contributed a major piece of prescient thinking in the 1949 volume of Proceedings/Computation Seminar, December 1949, assembled by Cutherbert Hurd of the IBM Applied Science Department. Description of programming from 'Planning and Coding of Problems for an Electronic Computing Instrument' by Goldstine and von Neumann, 1947-48. [The entire contents of the volume is available here.] was a staggering polymath who made contributions in many fields, not the least of which was in the creation of the modern computer. Aspray, John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1990, ch. Their thoughts and John von Neumann was born in Budapest a few years after the start of the 20th century, a well-timed birth for all of us, for he went on to design the architecture underlying nearly every single computer built on the planet today. His book emphasizes technical development, rather than personalities or business dynamics,. 11 janvier L'invention de l'ordinateur (Bruno Belhoste). Why you should read A History of Modern Computing.. In the mid 1940s, John von Neumann revolutionized the nascent field of computing by showing that program instructions could be stored in a computer's memory instead of on external panels or punch cards. When you look at the origins of modern computers people will more likely refer to Alan Turing or John von Neumann or Konrad Zuse. In The Computer Boys Take Over, Nathan Ensmenger describes the emergence of the technical specialists—computer programmers, systems analysts, and data processing managers—who helped transform the electronic digital computer from a scientific curiosity into the most powerful and ubiquitous technology of the . John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing. 2: “A Education in Computing”, p.