2005-03-15 Von Neumann's Universe http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2005/view/e_sess/7032 George Dyson we keep data in ram and display it on cathode ray tubes. early neumann prototype was the opposite--data kept on cathode ray tubes. [emotions kept on faces; muscle intentions kept in muscles.] "the usefulness of useless knowledge, by abraham flexner" http://www.ias.edu/the-institute-letter/archive/98Spring/spring98.php something about the medieval names for badgers? godel centenary is next year. godel and von neumann collaborated. [and unbelievable, seeing feynmann and von neumann sitting together in a photo, looking real, relaxed. then i remember early cybernetics, and the same people working on the neural networks of the brain that inspire the cpu and, etc, etc. where are those people now?] there's a paper that figures out the binary adder, etc, the successor to the eniac. [i must find out about and track down this paper.] IAS Electronic Computer Project, Nov 12, 1945: - division between numbers that mean data, and numbers that mean code and pauli worked in the same building. all this stuff, and/or gates etc, binary numbers as sloppy waveforms, all figured out then. there are scans here of the handdrawn, original sheets. order codes still exist in chips, like the nucleotides in dna.