I am currently taking a Java course at Harvard University (taught by Charlie Sawyer) and in a discussion about threads we happened to run across John von Neumann. John von Neuman is the one credited for coming up with a lot of ideas about computers that exists in modern day computing architectures. There is also the "von Neumann bottleneck" which is a limitation on the idea that data must travel between memory and CPU a word/instruction at a time.
See Also:
http://www.csupomona.edu/~hnriley/www/VonN.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
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