The Personalities Behind The Computer

John Von Neumann  Born December 28, 1903  Died February 8, 1957

Von Neuman Was a Hungarian Born American Mathematician and was considered by some to be a genius amongst geniuses. He applied his intelligence in many fields from game theory to the nuclear bomb of which he was the part of Manhattan Project. In the field of computing he is best known for his unfinished report on modern computer architecture in  which he describes a system input output, an arithmetic logic unit, a control unit and shared random access memory for programs and data storage. Although some call him the father of the modern computer it is clear that in his paper he was describing  an architecture that had already been described previously by others in the field such as the British born Allan Turing and J. Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, inventors of the ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania