Unlike his much more famous colleague Albert Einstein, John von Neumann is not a household name these days, but his discoveries shape the possibilities of life for every creature on this planet. As a ...
Hungarian-born John von Neumann (1903-1957), an internationally renowned mathematician, promoted a theoretical design for a computer in the 1940s. He envisioned the stored program concept, whereby ...
Northwestern Engineering’s Bernard J. Matkowsky has received the John von Neumann Lecture Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Established in 1959, the award is SIAM’s ...
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Jorge Nocedal, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern Engineering, has received the John von Neumann Theory Prize from the Institute for ...
John von Neumann, one of the most incredible Hungarian-born scientists of all time, was named Man of the Century by the Financial Times in 1999. Among other scientific works, Neumann pioneered game ...
We’ve never encountered aliens. Or alien probes. Nothing at all, in fact. But tiny self-replicating alien space probes could already be in our Solar System. If they were then could humanity’s biggest ...
Future historians of Texas might well puzzle over events now unfolding in our state. The fourth wave of the pandemic, whipped into a frenzy by the Delta variant, has crashed over Texans, filling ...
IT IS a curious and morbid fact that some of the 20th century’s most talented scientists died by suicide or experienced mental breakdowns so severe that they had to leave their fields altogether. One ...
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