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IBM 701 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 24, 2015Interesting discussion of the origin of the IBM 701 attributing it as a knockoff of the IAS machine communicated by von Neumann and contrasting its success to that of the Eckert-Mauchly derivative, the UNIVAC.
Klara Dan von Neumann – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 10, 2015Castle Bravo – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 6, 2015largest nuclear error: 3X off orig. 5 Megaton est.
Dr. Strangelove – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
June 30, 2015QT:{{”
The character is an amalgamation of RAND Corporation strategist Herman Kahn, mathematician and Manhattan Project principal John von Neumann, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (a central figure in Nazi Germany’s rocket development program recruited to the US after the war), and Edward Teller, the “father of the hydrogen bomb.”[15] There is a common misconception that the character was based on Henry Kissinger, but Kubrick and Sellers denied this;[16] Sellers said, “Strangelove was never modeled after Kissinger—that’s a popular misconception. It was always Wernher Von Braun.”[17]
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Jule Gregory Charney – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
June 29, 2015early use of the ENIAC/MANIAC
Julian Bigelow – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
June 28, 2015interesting discussion of how his computer research program was de-emphasized after von Neumann left the IAS and he stayed at a $9K salary (~$80K in ’15 $) for then on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Bigelow
Nils Aall Barricelli – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
June 27, 2015https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Aall_Barricelli
early biological computation
Max Newman – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
June 27, 2015Turing’s mentor
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