[TUHS] Happy birthday, John von Neumann!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Dec 28 08:10:56 AEST 2017


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-babbage-and-von-neumann .

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."



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