William Aspray provides the first broad and detailed account of von Neumann's many different contributions to computing. John von Neumann (1903-1957) was unques

William Aspray provides the first broad and detailed account of von Neumann's many different contributions to computing.

John von Neumann was a Jewish refugee from Hungary — considered a “genius” like fellow Hungarians Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller — who pla

This book represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century on the analogies between computing machines and the living human b

This work explores the conception, design, construction, use, and afterlife of ENIAC, the first general purpose digital electronic computer.