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John von Neumann

John von Neumann. By: Carrie Cannon CS 1002 Class Presentation. Early Life. Born on December 28, 1903 Hometown in Budapest, Hungary At the age of six, he had a great interest in numbers Age eight, read 41 volumes of the Universal History

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John von Neumann

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  1. John von Neumann By: Carrie Cannon CS 1002 Class Presentation

  2. Early Life • Born on December 28, 1903 • Hometown in Budapest, Hungary • At the age of six, he had a great interest in numbers • Age eight, read 41 volumes of the Universal History • Age ten, attended one of the best Universities in Budapest • Before graduating from high school, he would be considered a mathematical colleague by professors • Published Journal of the German Mathematical Society at age of seventeen

  3. College Days • Enrolled in the University of Berlin in 1921 • Studied chemical engineering • Graduated in 1926 with Bachelors in chemical engineering • At the same year, received Ph. D in Mathematics from University of Budapest • Began lecturing at age of 23 at U. of Berlin and Hamburg • Came to US in 1930’s to teach at Princeton • Began to work with British student Alan Turing

  4. History in US • Became editor of Annals of Mathematics and co- editor of Compositio Mathematica • Called upon by US government in participation in the construction of the atomic bomb in 1943 • Met Herbert Goldstine, a pioneer of one of the first operational electronic digital computers in 1944 • This sparked a fascination with computers • Started working on the stored program concept • This eliminated the hours of tedious labor required to reprogram computers

  5. Stored Program Concept (Architecture) • Contributed a new understanding of how practical fast computers should be organized and built • The advancement was the provision of a special type of machine instruction called conditional control transfer • This permitted the program sequence to be interrupted and reinitiated at any point • Data and program can be stored in the same space • The computer itself can alter the program or the internal data • Computing and programming became faster, more flexible, and more efficient in computational work

  6. Computers • 1950’s- consultant for IBM • Reviewed proposed and ongoing advanced technology projects • One project, FORTRAN, he questioned asking why anyone would want more than one machine language • Over the past 40 years, changes in computers have been primarily in terms of speed and composition of the fundamental circuits • The basic architecture designed by von Neumann has persisted

  7. End of the road • In 1957, died of bone cancer in Washington, D.C. at age of 54 • It is thought that his work with the atomic bomb resulted in the bone cancer • Today, he is thought to be one of the most brilliant and interesting minds of the twentieth century.

  8. Works Cited • Computer Science Illuminated, 2nd Edition • http://w3.salemstate.edu/~tevans/VonNeuma.htm • http://www.eingang.org/Lecture/neumann.html • http://www.redfish.com/dkunkle/vonNeumann/ • http://encarta.msn.com

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