Twenty years of viruses and still no cure
News Born in Hungary in 1903, von Neumann was responsible for seminal work in many branches of computer science, mathematics and physics, including logical analysis of a strategy called game theory and the newly born branch of quantum physics.
[November 27, 2003, 14:25]
Google side-steps AI rumours
News We are scanning them to be read by an AI,'" Dyson wrote in a posting on Edge.org following a visit to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of John von Neumann's proposal for a digital computer. Google has been quizzed about rumours that its current...
[November 15, 2005, 15:00]
Progress without parallel
Talkback No parallelism required, just good old Von Neumann. If you need to go blisteringly fast for the majority of applications that are not pararllel but are specialised, just take the code written to run on the limited resources of the early PCs and run...
[June 20, 2006, 11:33]
Artificial Intelligence: Working backwards from HAL
News Not long after the book was published, one of the fathers of computing, John von Neumann said, "You insist that there is something that a machine can not do. The phrase 'artificial intelligence' was first coined by John McCarthy at a conference at...
[March 27, 2006, 15:40]
Engineering a career at the PC's creation
News In June, Microsoft researcher Chuck Thacker won the prestigious John von Neumann Medal, bestowed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, for his role in that transition. Thirty-five years ago, the technology industry began a slow...
[July 5, 2007, 17:07]
Provision of Fault Tolerance With Grid-Enabled and SLA-Aware Resource Management Systems
White Papers Future applications of the Next Generation Grid will demand for flexible negotiation mechanisms supporting various ways of Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees. In this context a Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a powerful instrument for describing...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
A Scalable Ethernet Clos-Switch
White Papers The Scalability of Cluster Computers with Gigabit-Ethernet interconnect is limited by the unavailability of scalable Gigabit-Ethernet switches that can achieve full bisectional bandwidth. Clos' idea of connecting small crossbar-switches to a large...
[July 4, 2008, 1:00]
