The Universal Computer

Making the First Universal Computers

Exactly! And here is what Time had to say about von Neumann:

Virtually all computers today from $10 million supercomputers to

the tiny chips that power cell phones and Furbies, have one thing in

common: they are all “Von Neumann machines,” variations on the

basic computer architecture that John von Neumann, building on

the work of Alan Turing, laid out in the 1940s.

A Grateful Nation Rewards Its Hero

When Turing arrived in Manchester in the fall of 1948, it was still recover-

ing from the war, and there were neighborhoods that retained their grim

aspect left over from the city’s role in the early days of the Industrial Rev-

olution. One writer uses a famous book by Friedrich Engels as a source in

commenting on the ...