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John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician whose 1945 report on the EDVAC described a computer that stores its own program as data in the same memory as the numbers it operates on, the stored-program design now called the von Neumann architecture and used by virtually every general purpose computer since. This entity records his engineering-architecture contribution on TechnologyAtlas, distinct from his mathematician facet minted separately on ScienceAtlas.

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Birth Year
1903 1
Death Year
1957 1
Nationality
Hungarian-American 1
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The Computer, Inventions

Von Neumann's 1945 EDVAC report described the stored-program architecture used by virtually every general purpose computer built since.

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