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 ...

Subject: The world”s most powerful computer goes to work on the problems of tomorrow An average human being on a good day might be able to add or subtract perhaps two or three numbers in a second. The ...

John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) has the following research output in the current window (1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of ...

The writings of the developers of the high-speed digital computer during the 1940s suggest that technical knowledge of computers and the human brain produces dissonances with current acculturation, ...

Ziyang Xu from Peking University in Beijing sees several similarities between the human brain and Von Neumann computing devices. While he believes there is value in neuromorphic, or brain-inspired, ...

“In-memory computing” or “computational memory” is an emerging concept that uses the physical properties of memory devices for both storing and processing information. This is counter to current von ...