To date, quantum computers have been implemented so that programming their operation was, in essence, hardwired into their essential structure. Although many useful demonstrations of quantum computing ...

A few days ago, I blogged about the success of a research team at U.C. Santa Barbara in creating a quantum computing chip using von Neumann architecture - the type used in virtually all computers ...

In the heart of Manchester, UK, a groundbreaking event took place in 1948: the first modern computer, known as the Manchester Baby, ran its very first program. The Baby’s ability to execute stored ...

There are some problems that are simply too complex for even the most powerful of today’s computers, and researchers are trying to overcome the limits of traditional computer designs to enable ...

In 1977, John Backus wrote a seminal paper titled, Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style? In this paper, Backus defined the implications of what we refer to today as the “memory ...

The writings of the developers of the high-speed digital computer during the 1940s suggest that technical knowledge of computers and the human brain produces dissonances with current acculturation, ...

The history of digital computing can be divided into an old testament and a new testament. The prophets of the old testament, led by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the 1670s, supplied the logic; those ...

Unconventional computing is computing with novel chemical, living, and physical substrates, achieved by any of a wide range of totally uncommon techniques. While the general theory of computation ...

Our understanding is defined by the lens through which we examine things, and John von Neumann looked at problems through very high power magnification. An example was his comment at the first ...