John von Neumann (1903–1957), a Hungarian-born mathematician, cannot be described merely as a "mathematician." He was a ...

George Dyson has written a fascinating but flawed history of the computer. The son of the distinguished physicist Freeman Dyson, he was born in 1953 and as a child was witness to the world of ...

Inventor and proponent of the "stored program" concept, von Neumann applied his idea to the logical design of a computer infrastructure that became known as the "von Neumann architecture." One of the ...

With unique and outstanding achievements in mathematics and science, John von Neumann was on an intellectual level far above us; the oft-misused term “genius” truly applies to him. Brilliant in both ...

In early 1956, Marina von Neumann, daughter of world-renowned mathematician John von Neumann, brought her fiancé, Robert Whitman, home to Princeton, N.J., to meet her famous father. The eminent ...

Julian Bigelow, a mathematician and electrical engineer who was a pioneer in the fields of cybernetics and computing, died Monday in Princeton, N.J., where he lived. He was 89. In 1946, when John von ...

In Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson gives us a personal history of computing's early years. A science historian and son of physicist Freeman Dyson, he recounts a boyhood spent in 1950s Princeton, New ...