George Dyson has written a fascinating but flawed history of the computer. The son of the distinguished physicist Freeman Dyson, he was born in 1953 and as a child was witness to the world of ...

In 1948-49, mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and engineer John von Neumann introduced the world to his idea of “Universal Assemblers,” a species of self-replicating robots. Von Neumann’s ...

Inspiration for space exploration can come from all corners. One of the most inspiring, or terrifying, sources of inspiration for some in space exploration came from computer science expert John von ...

The separation of memory and processor units in von Neumann architecture has been a severe conceptual constraint for further growth of traditional computing systems. Concurrently, the emergence of ...