E 'difficult, very difficult to write about John Von Neumann ... In reality there should be a lot of material on the net about this myth of information to make almost unnecessary to add anything. And nothing more ...
One imagines that, as the Supreme Architect of the John von Neumann, who in fact has made possible everything that can be defined as "digital world", including the Internet, nothing should be added. And instead
Network is no homage to his Creator ...
There is very little material, moreover so disorderly, for anyone who wants to learn more. But maybe it's not just the fault of the network in truth.
I have personal memories of when I had my first encounter with the world of programming and computers.
University, during programming of computers. Von Neumann was just a mention, on the fly and very superficial indeed, by the professor turn.
A brief reference to the diagram (a masterpiece of abstraction and simplicity) on the architecture of MAG (Generalized abstract machine), some historical sull'ENIAC (the first computer as we know it today) and so on, right on with the course programming ... UNIVAC Fortran 77 and 1100 (punch cards!) As a processor of the computer lab.
It is said that von Neumann designed the scheme of MAG in minutes, immediately after realizing that the designers of what became the ENIAC were groping in the dark ... Absence of Intuition in darkness. Today, almost always, when speaking of Von Neumann and his eclecticism Supreme (was also one of the greatest mathematicians of the modern era), there are many, unfortunately, the IT professionals who rummage in bulk in its memory.
And we are talking about when we talk about Von Neumann, the one who posited and made possible the application of bit as a unit of primary information.
Von Neumann was, however, undoubtedly a genius and, as often happens with outstanding personalities, certainly a genius of evil.
He must, in fact, the first systematic and disinterested collaboration of science with the arms industry. This means an organization, the Rand Corporation Of which he was one of the most prominent and also, perhaps, hidden shareholder.
Together with his friend, the nuclear physicist Edward Teller, who died recently, however, represented the other side of science, the one that brought the United States to any strategy meeting at the Presidential Cabinet, the need to secure their first strike "during the so-called Cold War. In full compliance with the principles of game theory.
Their opponents, of Teller and Von Neumann were the bus stops, the Oppheneimer, Einstein and the paradox was that all together, the opponents of Von Neumann, who after the end of World War II took on the role of pacifist doves, actually had their own contributed decisively to the creation of nuclear weapons.
Much the same Von Neumann in that we see a historic photo below along with Oppheneimer and ENIAC.
Fermi had demonstrated the possibility of atomic fission reaction, and he knew when the experiment said the United States, what would be served.
Einstein had even written a letter to President Roosevelt's prayer for you to endow the project Mahnattan funding. And Einstein argued the request was motivated by the terrible need to defeat the Nazi monster at all costs. For the Von Neumann
monster to defeat a any price would have been a Communist.
Oppenheimer, last but not least, was the scientist with exceptional organizational skills made it possible to reach the bomb in a few years. The organization's chief operating officer of Project Mahnattan. One of the largest organizations in history, perhaps second only to that period, Albert Speer, Hitler's Armaments Minister, another world. Architectural organizations. All
doves, however, Einstein and those of his circle, after delivering the bomb ...
demon The only official so to speak, however, was Von Neumann ... better omitted or forgotten. Known only by specialists sector, by mathematicians and totally unknown to most.
The creator of Game Theory, another fundamental cornerstone of many scientific disciplines, along with Nash ... but that's another story ...
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