Nerds You Should Know #6 (cont)
John von Neumann
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- 1933-1953: Professor of Mathematics
Princeton University
Institute of Advanced Studies
- developed idea of "stored program"
- developed "memory/cpu" architecture
(now called the "von Neumann architecture")
- first computer called "MANIAC"
- provided computational support
for Manhattan Project (US atom bomb)
- early champion of scientific computing
- sceptical of "high-level programming languages"
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