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Klara Dan von Neumann

2012-03-31T22:22:06Z

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[[File:Photograph_of_Klara_Dan_von_Neumann.png|thumb|right|Klara Dan von Neumann. Photo by [[Alfred Eisenstaedt]] <ref name="Inc1957">{{cite book|last=Blair Jr|first=Cary|title=Passing of a Great Mind|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rEEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA89|accessdate=31 March 2012|volume=42, No. 8|date=25 February 1957|publisher=Time Inc|pages=89–104|id={{ISSN|00243019}}}}</ref> ]]
Klára (Klari) Dán 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]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Andrieu|first=Christophe|coauthors=Nando de Freitas, Arnaud Doucet, Michael I. Jordan|title=An Introduction to MCMC for Machine Learning|journal=Kluwer Academic Publishers|date=10 September 2001|year=2001|month=September|pages=47|doi=10.1023/A:1020281327116|url=http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~nando/papers/mlintro.pdf|accessdate=30 March 2012}}</ref> and taught early weather scientists how to program <ref>{{cite book|last=Edwards|first=Paul N.|title=A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming|year=2010|publisher=The MIT Press|isbn=978-0262013925|url=http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12080}}</ref>.

Klára wrote the preface to John von Neumann's posthumously published, influential Silliman Lectures<ref>{{cite web|last=von Nuemann|first=Klara|title=Preface, Von Neumann Silliman lectures|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Von_Neumann_Silliman.html|work=The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive|publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews Scotland|accessdate=31 March 2012}}</ref>, later edited and published by Yale University Press as "The Computer and the Brain" <ref>{{cite book|last=Churchland|first=John von Neumann. With a foreword by Paul M.|title=The computer and the brain|year=2000|publisher=Yale Nota Bene|location=New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]|isbn=9780300084733|edition=2nd ed.}}</ref> .

She was born in Budapest Hungary in 1911, to Károly - Karl Dán and Camila Stadler. She reportedly took her own life in 1963 <ref>{{cite web|last=Chen, J with Su-I Lu, and Dan Vekhter|title=Von Neumann and the Development of Game Theory|url=http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/courses/soco/projects/1998-99/game-theory/neumann.html|accessdate=31 March 2012}}</ref> . 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_(science_historian)|George Dyson's]] Book "Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe" [ISBN: 978-0375422775]

== References ==
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Klara Dan von Neumann

2012-03-31T22:21:48Z

150.101.221.106:

[[File:Photograph_of_Klara_Dan_von_Neumann.png|thumb|right|Klara Dan von Neumann. Photo by [[Alfred Eisenstaedt]] <ref name="Inc1957">{{cite book|last=Blair Jr|first=Cary|title=Passing of a Great Mind|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rEEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA89|accessdate=31 March 2012|volume=42, No. 8|date=25 February 1957|publisher=Time Inc|pages=89–104|id={{ISSN|00243019}}}}</ref> ]]
Klára (Klari) Dán 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]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Andrieu|first=Christophe|coauthors=Nando de Freitas, Arnaud Doucet, Michael I. Jordan|title=An Introduction to MCMC for Machine Learning|journal=Kluwer Academic Publishers|date=10 September 2001|year=2001|month=September|pages=47|doi=10.1023/A:1020281327116|url=http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~nando/papers/mlintro.pdf|accessdate=30 March 2012}}</ref> and taught early weather scientists how to program <ref>{{cite book|last=Edwards|first=Paul N.|title=A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming|year=2010|publisher=The MIT Press|isbn=978-0262013925|url=http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12080}}</ref>.

Klára wrote the preface to John von Neumann's posthumously published, influential Silliman Lectures<ref>{{cite web|last=von Nuemann|first=Klara|title=Preface, Von Neumann Silliman lectures|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Von_Neumann_Silliman.html|work=The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive|publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews Scotland|accessdate=31 March 2012}}</ref>, later edited and published by Yale University Press as "The Computer and the Brain" <ref>{{cite book|last=Churchland|first=John von Neumann. With a foreword by Paul M.|title=The computer and the brain|year=2000|publisher=Yale Nota Bene|location=New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]|isbn=9780300084733|edition=2nd ed.}}</ref> .

She was born in Budabest Hungary in 1911, to Károly - Karl Dán and Camila Stadler. She reportedly took her own life in 1963 <ref>{{cite web|last=Chen, J with Su-I Lu, and Dan Vekhter|title=Von Neumann and the Development of Game Theory|url=http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/courses/soco/projects/1998-99/game-theory/neumann.html|accessdate=31 March 2012}}</ref> . 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_(science_historian)|George Dyson's]] Book "Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe" [ISBN: 978-0375422775]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==


{{DEFAULTSORT:Women In Computing}}
[[Category:Computing and society]]
[[Category:Women computer scientists| ]]
[[Category:Gender studies]]
[[Category:Women in technology]]
{{compu-scientist-stub}}