From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo Nusquam) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 17:26:19 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, John von Neumann! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <58e32359-5c52-edad-e429-de21227183ef@gmail.com> On 12/27/17 17:10, 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 > . Coincidentally, I ran across my copy of Goldstine, "The computer from Pascal to von Neumann", as I was cleaning up, and plan to reread in the coming weeks. Short of checking the references in von Neumann's papers, I would think something would in there. N.