In 1977, John Backus wrote a seminal paper titled, Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style? In this paper, Backus defined the implications of what we refer to today as the “memory ...

This essay explores reflexivity, reproduction, and evolutionary discourse in John von Neumann's "Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata" and, using Maturana and Varela's notion of autopoiesis, connects ...

A cycle-accurate alternative to speculation — unifying scalar, vector and matrix compute In dynamic execution, processors speculate about future instructions, dispatch work out of order and roll back ...

Episode: 2487 John von Neumann’s ideas on the similarities and differences of computers and brains. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić talks about brains, computers and John von Neumann.

There’s a time in every geek’s development when they learn of Conway’s Game of Life. This is usually followed by an afternoon spent on discovering that the standard rule set has been chosen because ...

In Part I we investigated two computing options to fill the vacuum left by the collapsing PC business and its associated effect on Intel's x86 architecture. Part 2 is an overview of developing ...

John von Neumann (December 28, 1903 - February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-German mathematician and polymath who was a pioneer of the modern digital computer and the application of operator theory to ...