计算机之父

约翰·冯·诺伊曼（英语：John von Neumann，1903年12月28日－1957年2月8日），匈牙利语原名：Neumann János，出生于匈牙利的美国籍犹太人数学家，现代计算机创始人之一。他在计算机科学、经济、物理学中的量子力学及几乎所有数学领域都作过重大贡献。

1945年6月，冯·诺伊曼与戈德斯坦、勃克斯等人，联名发表了一篇长达101页纸的报告，即计算机史上著名的“101页报告”，是现代计算机科学发展里程碑式的文献。明确规定用二进制替代十进制运算，并将计算机分成五大组件，这一卓越的思想为电子计算机的逻辑结构设计奠定了基础，已成为计算机设计的基本原则。1951年，EDVAC计算机宣告完成。由于他在计算机逻辑结构设计上的伟大贡献，他被誉为“计算机之父”。

Von Neumann was a founding figure in computer science. Von Neumann's hydrogen bomb work was played out in the realm of computing, where he and Stanisław Ulam developed simulations on von Neumann's digital computers for the hydrodynamic computations. During this time he contributed to the development of the Monte Carlo method, which allowed solutions to complicated problems to be approximated using random numbers.

Because using lists of "truly" random numbers was extremely slow, von Neumann developed a form of making pseudorandom numbers, using the middle-square method. Though this method has been criticized as crude, von Neumann was aware of this: he justified it as being faster than any other method at his disposal, and also noted that when it went awry it did so obviously, unlike methods which could be subtly incorrect.