To date, quantum computers have been implemented so that programming their operation was, in essence, hardwired into their essential structure. Although many useful demonstrations of quantum computing ...

John von Neumann (1903–1957), a Hungarian-born mathematician, cannot be described merely as a "mathematician." He was a ...

A few days ago, I blogged about the success of a research team at U.C. Santa Barbara in creating a quantum computing chip using von Neumann architecture - the type used in virtually all computers ...

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 ...

In the heart of Manchester, UK, a groundbreaking event took place in 1948: the first modern computer, known as the Manchester Baby, ran its very first program. The Baby’s ability to execute stored ...

The history of digital computing can be divided into an old testament and a new testament. The prophets of the old testament, led by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the 1670s, supplied the logic; those ...

In early 1956, Marina von Neumann, daughter of world-renowned mathematician John von Neumann, brought her fiancé, Robert Whitman, home to Princeton, N.J., to meet her famous father. The eminent ...

Our understanding is defined by the lens through which we examine things, and John von Neumann looked at problems through very high power magnification. An example was his comment at the first ...