From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: stewart@serissa.com (Lawrence Stewart) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 18:38:27 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, John von Neumann! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3AA0CD78-C24E-45FD-B7B7-BE0F219E04CA@serissa.com> I would recommend https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/3972 which is the Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument, which describes the IAS machine. > On 2017, Dec 27, at 5:10 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > We gained John von Neumann on this day in 1903, and if you haven't heard of him then you are barely human... As computer science goes, he's right up there with Alan Turing. There is speculation that he knew of Babbage's work; see https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/10828/the-relation-between-babbage-and-von-neumann . > > -- > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: