Subject: The world”s most powerful computer goes to work on the problems of tomorrow An average human being on a good day might be able to add or subtract perhaps two or three numbers in a second. The ...

Episode: 2487 John von Neumann’s ideas on the similarities and differences of computers and brains. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić talks about brains, computers, and John von Neumann.

The modern computer may have begun with a random meeting at a train station in 1944. When mathematician Herman Goldstine told ...

From John von Neumann’s universal machine to John Nash’s insight into computation, this video explores how computer scientists began measuring problems by the number of steps a machine must take as ...

In 1948-49, mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and engineer John von Neumann introduced the world to his idea of “Universal Assemblers,” a species of self-replicating robots. Von Neumann’s ...

Unlike his much more famous colleague Albert Einstein, John von Neumann is not a household name these days, but his discoveries shape the possibilities of life for every creature on this planet. As a ...