John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician whose 1945 report on the EDVAC described a computer that stores its own program as data in the same memory as the numbers it operates on, the stored-program design now called the von Neumann architecture and used by virtually every general purpose computer since. This entity records his engineering-architecture contribution on TechnologyAtlas, distinct from his mathematician facet minted separately on ScienceAtlas.
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Formulated the stored-program computer architecture used by nearly all modern computers.
The Computer, Inventions Von Neumann's 1945 EDVAC report described the stored-program architecture used by virtually every general purpose computer built since.
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- Wikipedia 'John von Neumann': born Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary; checked 2026-09-27
- Wikipedia 'John von Neumann': citizenship United States; checked 2026-09-27
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