Roughly a third of a modern computer science curriculum can be traced directly to von Neumann's contributions, including algorithms (merge sort), linear programming, von Neumann architecture, game theory, finite state machines, cellular automata, and von Neumann entropy in quantum computing.
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“probably like a quarter of my curriculum”
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