Summary

The Von Neumann architecture is a concept proposal by the mathematician and early computer scientist John von Neumann on June 30, 1945. This architecture revolves around the new idea that the programs are stored in memory, rather than as a seperate entity. The four major conponents of this model are: memory, input/output, ALU (arithmetic logic unit) and the CU (control unit). Today, this architecture is employed by millions of computers worldwide, despite being such a dated design.