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Nerds You Should Know #6 (cont)

John von Neumann

  • 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"