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Wikipedia's biography of John von Neumann, the Hungarian-American mathematician whose 1945 report on the EDVAC set out the stored-program computer design later called the von Neumann architecture.

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Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
Source Type
reference
Reliability Tier
3
A community edited tertiary reference, used here for uncontested biographical facts, cross-checked during research against the Wikipedia and general histories' account of the EDVAC report's circulation and the attribution dispute it caused with Mauchly and Eckert.
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This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Scientists, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

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8

Connected

1

General References

1
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