If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

John Von Neumann, speech at Association for Computing Machinery meeting, 1947

 

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Left) and Dr. John Von Neumann stand in front of a new electronic "brain," the fastest computing machine for its degree of precision yet made. The machine which can do 2,00 [i.e. 200] multiplications in one second and add or subtract 100,000 times in the same period was displayed today for the first time at the Institute for Advanced Study. Its fabulous memory can store 1,024 numbers of 12 decimal places each. Dr. von Neumann was one of the designers of the wonder machine. Dr. Oppenheimer is one of the nation's outstanding atomic scientists. The Atomic Energy Commission is one of the sponsors of the brain. MCS. 6-10-52"

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