冯·诺伊曼将其天赋才智转向计算机科学之前已是世界上最卓越的数学家之一,在将其精力投入研制以其姓氏命名的计算机之前,他已找到引爆原子弹的方法。在本刊《人物志》介绍的所有计算机先驱者当中堪称天才者恐仅冯·诺伊曼一人。他在本世纪40年代提出的计算机设计原理,时至今日仍是计算机设计制造的理论基础。虽然存储程序计算机的发明权存在争议,但冯·诺伊曼在倡导和宣传这一设计思想并进而引起 Von Neumann was one of the most distinguished mathematicians in the world before turning his talent into computer science, and until he had devoted his energies to developing a computer named after his name, he had found a way to detonate the atomic bomb. Among all the computer pioneers described in this issue of “Portrait”, the genius fears only von Neumann. His theory of computer design put forward in the 1940s is still the theoretical basis of computer design and manufacture. Although the right to invent computer programs is controversial, von Neumann advocates and promotes this design concept and in turn causes