CSCI 215
September 25, 2014
Pioneer Paper
John Neumann was born December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Hungary.
Hungarian-born American mathematician. name to become John Von Neumann.
He was a
As an adult, he appended Von to his
He was a so called child prodigy and became one of the world’s foremost mathematicians by his mid-twenties.
John had a gift for math that took on the paths that influenced quantum theory, automata theory, economics, and defense planning.
He pioneered game theory and along with Alan Turing and Claude Shannon, was one of the inventors of the stored- program digital computer.
According to Wikipedia, He made major contributions to mathematics in a number of fields, physics including quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics and fluid …show more content…
It seems that I could list the areas that he made contributions to for a long time.
John Von Neumann wrote 150 published papers including 60 in mathematics,
20 in physics, and 60 in applied mathematics. with the title “The Computer and the Brain.”
One was published in book formOne of John Von Neumann’s most significant accomplishments, and the reason I selected him as a pioneer, was the development of the model of computer architecture that we still use today.
It is called the Von Neumann
Architecture. He gave the design and architecture for an electronic digital computer system.
The system, just like the systems in use today, consists of a central processing unit containing an arithmetic logic unit and processor registers, a control unit containing an instruction register and program counter, a memory to store both data and instructions, external mass storage and input and output mechanisms.
Post World War 2, but staring in 1944, von Neumann contributed important ideas to the US Army’s hard-wired ENIAC computer. run as a stored-program machine.
He then lobbied the Institute for Advanced
Study to build an improved computer.
1951.
He modified the ENIAC