The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993)

Re:The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993) by gumby on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:02AM (#16412584)

What they don't tell you is that at the Institute for Advanced Study the poor assistant had to use the same filing cabinet for his list of duties, to do list, and all of Von Neumann's correspondence and papers.

While up at Harvard the assistants were given separate cabinets to make their lives easier. But woe betide the poor assistant who tried to put a file in the wrong cabinet!

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Re:The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993) by dgacmu on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:22PM (#16417156)

Please feel free to include in your comedy CV that you managed to sneak this one past a computer science professor until the third read-through. Kudos. :)

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Re:The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993) by canaanical on Monday February 19, 2018 @03:19PM (#16415397)

This is an excellent and under-appreciated joke. Bravo.

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Re:The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993) by euler_ on Monday February 19, 2018 @03:55PM (#16415673)

What's the joke?

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Re:The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993) by Chinjut on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:07PM (#16415757)

von Neumann architecture vs. Harvard architecture (of computers)

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