John von Neumann : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: John von Neumann	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
John von Neumann n United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957) Synonym(s): von Neumann, Neumann, John von Neumann
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
John von Neumann /jon von noy'mahn/ Born 1903-12-28, died 1957-02-08. A Hungarian-born mathematician who did pioneering work in quantum physics, game theory, and {computer science}. He contributed to the USA's Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bomc. While serving on the BRL Scientific Advisory Committee, von Neumann joined the developers of {ENIAC} and made some critical contributions. In 1947, while working on the design for the successor machine, {EDVAC}, von Neumann realized that ENIAC's lack of a centralized control unit could be overcome to obtain a rudimentary stored program computer. He also proposed the {fetch-execute cycle}. {(http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/is2000/hall_of_fame/vonneuma.htm)}. {(http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/VonNeumann.html)}. {(http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/54nord/)}. (2001-01-30)