The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation . This was an intense ...

Hungarian-born John von Neumann ... the computer's internal memory (RAM), and they would be executed to process the data that were also fed into the same memory. Contrast with Harvard architecture.

The registers and key elements of the Von Neumann architecture all play a part in how an instruction is processed in the fetch-decode-execute cycle.

Tom Hackett traces the evolution of the von Neumann computer architecture through a series of adaptations intended to bypass processing bottlenecks that appeared as more and more demands were placed ...