Klára Dán von Neumann
Klara (Klari) Dan Von Neumann was a scientist, and a pioneer computer programmer. She wrote the code used on the MANIAC machine developed by John Von Neumann and Julian Bigelow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. She was also involved in the design of new controls for ENIAC[2] and taught early weather scientists how to program [3].
Klara wrote the preface to John von Neumann's posthumously published, influential Silliman Lectures[4], later edited and published by Yale University Press as "The Computer and the Brain" [5] .
She was born in Hungary in 1911, and reportedly took her own life in 1963[6] . She was married four times, including to John Von Neumann in 1938, and to Carl Eckart in 1958.
She features significantly in computing historian George Dyson's Book "Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe" [ISBN: 978-0375422775]
References
- ^ Blair Jr, Cary (25 February 1957). Passing of a Great Mind. Vol. 42, No. 8. Time Inc. pp. 89–104. ISSN 00243019 Parameter error in {{issn}}: Invalid ISSN.. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
- ^ Andrieu, Christophe (10 September 2001). "An Introduction to MCMC for Machine Learning" (PDF). Kluwer Academic Publishers: 47. doi:10.1023/A:1020281327116. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Edwards, Paul N. (2010). A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262013925.
- ^ von Nuemann, Klara. "Preface, Von Neumann Silliman lectures". The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews Scotland. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
- ^ Churchland, John von Neumann. With a foreword by Paul M. (2000). The computer and the brain (2nd ed. ed.). New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]: Yale Nota Bene. ISBN 9780300084733.
{{cite book}}:|edition=has extra text (help) - ^ Chen, J with Su-I Lu, and Dan Vekhter. "Von Neumann and the Development of Game Theory". Retrieved 31 March 2012.
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