Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

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 ...

Game theory got its start with the work of John von Neumann in the 1920s, which culminated in his book with Oskar Morgenstern. They studied "zero-sum" games where the interests of two players were ...

Recognizing Excellence in Applied Mathematics The John von Neumann Prize, established in 1959, is SIAM’s highest honor. Named after John von Neumann, one of the foundations of modern computing ...

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Northwestern Engineering’s Jorge Nocedal has been awarded the 2024 John von Neumann Prize, the highest honor bestowed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Nocedal, Walter P.