John Louis von Neumann
Born: 28 December 1903, Budapest, Hungary
Died: 8 February 1957, Washington DC
Mathematician, synthesizer, and inventor of the von Neumann Architecture.
Compilations
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Von Neumann, John, Theory of Self-Reproducing
Automata. Edited and completed by A. W. Burks. University of Illinois
Press, Urbana, Illinois (1966).
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Taub, A. H. (ed).. John von Neumann: Collected
Works, 1903-1957, 6 Vols., Pergamon Press, Oxford (UK) (1961-63).
Books
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von Neumann, J., The Computer and the Brain, Yale Univ. Press,
New Haven (1958).
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von Neumann, J. and Oskar Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic
Behavior, Princeton Univ. Press,
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Princeton NJ. (1944).
References
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von Neumann, J., "Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable
Organisms from Unreliable Components", pp. 43-98 in Automata Studies,
C. E. Shannon, J. McCarthy, eds., Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N.J.
(1956) or perhaps (1952)?; Also in Collected Works, vol. 5:329-378.
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von Neumann, J., "The general and logical theory of automata", in
Taub
(1961), 5(9):288-328. First published 1951 as pages 1-41 (31?)
of: L. A. Jeffress (ed), Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior-The Hixon Symposium,
New York: John Wiley (1951).
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Charney, J. G., R. Fjörtoft and J. von Neumann, "Numerical
Integration of the Barotropic Vorticity Equation", Tellus 2:237-254
(1950).
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von Neumann, J., "Theory and organization of complicated automata",
in Burks (1966), pp. 29-87 (Part One). Based
on transcripts of lectures delivered at the University of Illinois, in
December 1949. Edited for publication by A.W. Burks.
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von Neumann, J., "The theory of automata: Construction, reproduction,
homogeneity", in Burks (1966), pp. 89-250. Based
on an unfinished manuscript by von Neumann circa 1952. Edited for publication
by A.W. Burks.
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von Neumann, J., "The Principles of Large-Scale Computing Machines",
reprinted in Ann. Hist. Comp. 3(3):263-273 (1946).
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von Neumann, J., "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC",
Contract No. W-670-ORD-492, Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Univ.
of Penn., Philadelphia (30 June 1945). Reprinted (in part) in pp. 383-392
of Randell, Brian, Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, (1982)
WWW References
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