John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) has the following research output in the current window (1 September 2024 - 31 August 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Bernard J. Matkowsky has received the John von Neumann Lecture Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Established in 1959, the award is SIAM’s ...

Unlike his much more famous colleague Albert Einstein, John von Neumann is not a household name these days, but his discoveries shape the possibilities of life for every creature on this planet. As a ...

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Hungarian-born John von Neumann (1903-1957), an internationally renowned mathematician, promoted a theoretical design for a computer in the 1940s. He envisioned the stored program concept, whereby ...

Jorge Nocedal, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern Engineering, has received the John von Neumann Theory Prize from the Institute for ...

IT IS a curious and morbid fact that some of the 20th century’s most talented scientists died by suicide or experienced mental breakdowns so severe that they had to leave their fields altogether. One ...

We’ve never encountered aliens. Or alien probes. Nothing at all, in fact. But tiny self-replicating alien space probes could already be in our Solar System. If they were then could humanity’s biggest ...

John von Neumann (1903–1957) was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century and “probably the smartest man on Earth,” contends journalist Bhattacharya in his knotty debut. Born in ...

Future historians of Texas might well puzzle over events now unfolding in our state. The fourth wave of the pandemic, whipped into a frenzy by the Delta variant, has crashed over Texans, filling ...