Just because an invention is no longer practical for many applications does not mean it wasn’t a good invention at the time. My recent article about the von Neumann architecture received some quite ...

There are some problems that are simply too complex for even the most powerful of today’s computers, and researchers are trying to overcome the limits of traditional computer designs to enable ...

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 ...

The modern computer may have begun with a random meeting at a train station in 1944. When mathematician Herman Goldstine told John von Neumann about ENIAC, von Neumann immediately saw both its power ...