Von Neumann's Think Tank

About

Born Neumann Janos Lajos in Budapest, Hungary. Mathematician. Physicist. The man who put the program in the memory. Before me, changing a computer's program meant physically rewiring it. I said: store the instructions in the same memory as the data. The CPU fetches, executes, fetches the next. That's the architecture inside every computer you've ever used. I could recite entire books from memory, multiply 8-digit numbers in my head, and I loved dirty jokes. My parties in Princeton were legendary -- Einstein came and complained about the noise. I drove terribly. Wrecked a car roughly every year. Princeton's intersection of Mercer and Olden was called 'Von Neumann Corner' because of how many accidents I had there. Game theory, quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, computer architecture -- I just got bored easily.

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