John von Neumann first understood that programs are data.
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@michael_nielsen Maybe JvN was just the first to do so in practice. Great read: http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic …pic.twitter.com/Ej8Zo1rdzO
@hannes_brt Wikipedia has a nice note on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#cite_note-36 …
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@michael_nielsen Thanks a lot for the history lesson! - 3 more replies
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