From John von Neumann’s universal machine to John Nash’s insight into computation, this video explores how computer scientists began measuring problems by the number of steps a machine must take as ...
SFI External Professor Mark Newman (University of Michigan) has been awarded the 2026 John von Neumann Prize from the Society ...
Subject: The world”s most powerful computer goes to work on the problems of tomorrow An average human being on a good day might be able to add or subtract perhaps two or three numbers in a second. The ...
The modern computer may have begun with a random meeting at a train station in 1944. When mathematician Herman Goldstine told ...
Mark Newman will deliver this flagship lecture at the 2026 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN26), happening July 6-10, 2026.