27 Dec
2017
27 Dec
'17
11:26 p.m.
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-bab…
.
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.