person /jon von noy'mahn/ Born 1903-12-28, died 1957-02-08.
A Hungarian-born mathematician who did pioneering work in
contributed to the USA's Manhattan Project that built the
first atomic bomc.
While serving on the BRL Scientific Advisory Committee, von
Neumann joined the developers of
ENIAC and made some
critical contributions. In 1947, while working on the design
for the successor machine,
EDVAC, von Neumann realized that
ENIAC's lack of a centralized control unit could be overcome
to obtain a rudimentary stored program computer. He also
(2001-01-30)