Klara Dan von Neumann

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Klara Dan von Neumann
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Klara Dan von Neumann. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt [1]
Born (1911-08-18)August 18, 1911
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
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San Diego, California, United States
Residence United States
Nationality Hungarian and American
Fields Computer science
Institutions Princeton University
Site Y, Los Alamos
Known for MANIAC I

Klára (Klari) Dán Von Neumann (18 August 1911 – 10 November 1963) 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 and was one of its primary programmers.[2][3] She taught early weather scientists how to program.[4]

Klára wrote the preface to John von Neumann's posthumously published, influential Silliman Lectures,[5] later edited and published by Yale University Press as "The Computer and the Brain".[6]

She was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1911, to Károly - Karl Dán and Camila Stadler. She reportedly took her own life in 1963.[7] 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's book, Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, ISBN 978-0375422775.

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