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by satori99 808 days ago
There were others in his league who have been mostly lost in history. When von Neumann first published a description of a stored-program binary computing machine in 1945, he cited only one paper -- which was co-authored by Walter Pitts;

https://nautil.us/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with...

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Thank you for sharing this, beautiful and tragic as it is.