 ... machines, which differ radically with respect to organization. As a consequence of this lack of theory, the design and instruction of digital computers is an art, the art by which man controls the machine. The late John von Neumann sought a theory...  The Computer and the Brain - Page 2by John Von Neumann - 2000 - 82 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Paul Virilio - Computers - 1995 - 626 pages
...mathematical techniques, the logical and the statistical aspects will be in the foreground. FuYthermore, logic and statistics should be primarily, although not exclusively,...be the focus of much of this information theory." 5 The founding influence of statistics on contemporary functional thought has already been noted in... | |
 | University of Michigan. Engineering Summer Conferences - Machine theory - 1963 - 556 pages
...machine. The late John von Neumann sought a theory of the organization of automata which would be based on "that body of experience which has grown up around...of complicated logical and mathematical automata" *) and which would have applications in the design and programming of digital computers. He outlined... | |
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