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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, John von Neumann!
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 09:10:56 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712280908590.64029@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)

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."


             reply	other threads:[~2017-12-27 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-27 22:10 Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-12-27 22:26 ` Nemo Nusquam
2017-12-27 23:38 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-12-28  2:10 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-28  2:15 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-12-28 13:40   ` [TUHS] XINU for the 68000 / 68010 Jason Stevens
2017-12-28 14:06     ` arnold
2017-12-28 17:20       ` Jason Stevens
2018-02-02  0:04 ` [TUHS] Happy birthday, John von Neumann! Nemo
2018-02-02 17:01 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-12-28  3:08 Dave Horsfall

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