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Inside LEO, the first business computer

...Pennsylvania in 1944-5. Another member of the EDVAC team was John von Neumann; he wrote up some of the design decisions in a famous... Read more

17 November, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Generating Probability Distributions Using Multivalued Stochastic Relay Circuits

Generating Probability Distributions Using Multivalued Stochastic Relay Circuits

The problem of random number generation dates back to von Neumann's work in 1951. Since then, many algorithms have been developed... Read more

7 February, 2011
Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

Famous for wartime cryptography and personal tragedy, Alan Turing's legacy is much wider than that. One of the true fathers of computing, he also made many other advances that are only now becoming fully appreciated Read more

3 March, 2012 by S Barry Cooper

Researchers début combined quantum processor and RAM

...quantum processor for the first time, making a quantum chip based on von Neumann architecture. The chip needs to be cooled to within a whisker... Read more

5 September, 2011

IBM 'neuron' chips mimic brain processing

...integrates hardware and software, marking a "critical shift" away from the traditional von Neumann architecture of separate CPU and memory, the company said. "This is... Read more

18 August, 2011 by David Meyer

Happy 30th Birthday, ZX81

The Sinclair ZX81 home computer is 30 today. It and its variants such as the Timex-Sinclair 1000 sold over one and a... Read more

5 March, 2011

Photos: Rebirth of trailblazing Edsac computer

Edsac was based on the ideas of mathematician John von Neumann, who suggested the future of computing lay in machines that could... Read more

14 January, 2011 by Nick Heath

Remembering Maurice Wilkes, pioneer of UK computing

...jobs. Did they keep it secret? No. Wilkes got to read John von Neumann's seminal paper, First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC... Read more

2 December, 2010
The Monday Twitter Photo Challenge

The Monday Twitter Photo Challenge

...known to survive, with one of them believed to be the oldest von Neumann architecture computer still regularly powered up and run. So: three parts... Read more

26 July, 2010 by ZDNet UK

Turing & His Times: centenary videos now online

...on 7 March, was about the influence of Alan Turing on John von Neumann, and vice-versa. The final event, held at the Heinz Nixdorf... Read more

28 May, 2012
Construction of the Tsujii-Shamir-Kasahara (TSK) Type Multivariate Public Key Cryptosystem, Which Relies on the Difficulty of Prime Factorization

Construction of the Tsujii-Shamir-Kasahara (TSK) Type Multivariate Public Key Cryptosystem, Which Relies on the Difficulty of Prime Factorization

...a new MPKC based on sequential solution method, assuming the security against von Neumann computers, whose attack seems as difficult as prime factoring. This cryptosystem... Read more

18 March, 2012
Calculate Pi Academic -Calculate Pi free of ads!- 2.2

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...20th century led to an increased rate of new calculation records. John von Neumann et al. used ENIAC to compute 2037 digits of in 1949... Read more

25 February, 2012
Element-Based Computational Model

Element-Based Computational Model

...elements (encapsulated data) that is similar to the instruction cycle of the von Neumann model. The elements contain the information required to process them. The... Read more

1 February, 2012
Pi 2.01

Pi 2.01

...20th century led to an increased rate of new calculation records. John von Neumann et al. used ENIAC to compute 2037 digits of in 1949... Read more

5 August, 2011
Parallax - A New Operating System Prototype Demonstrating Service Scaling and Service Self-Repair in Multi-Core Servers

Parallax - A New Operating System Prototype Demonstrating Service Scaling and Service Self-Repair in Multi-Core Servers

...centric computing architecture. A parallel signaling network overlay over a network of von Neumann Stored Program Control (SPC) computing nodes is utilized to implement dynamic... Read more

25 May, 2011

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