If the most dangerous invention to emerge from World War II was the atomic bomb, the computer now seems to ... out to intersect in the figure of John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born polymath ...

Unlike his much more famous colleague Albert Einstein, John von Neumann is not a ... The pioneering programmable computer that von Neumann and his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study ...

Computer Science Professors Christos Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis received the John von Neumann Theory Prize for their research in computational complexity theory that explores the ...

Today, John von Neumann is recognised as being one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century, not to mention a computer pioneer. Benjamin Sudakov: He was a visionary when it came to the ...