The Computer and the Brain.

A very short book, written for Yale's Silliman Lectures and published after the author's death, that can definitely be considered a part of the very foundations of Computer Science. In it, John von Neumann (yes, the father of the renowned von Neumann architecture upon which we built the whole edifice of modern computing) muses about the differences between machine and biological intelligence. Prominent neuroscientific thinkers Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland provide a brief introduction to the book, which represents the final accomplishment of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century. John von Neumann concludes that the human brain operates, at least in part, in a digital manner, although instead of doing so in a sequential manner, it acts in what can only be considered a massively parallel form, thus predating our contemporary approach to these issues.

Technical description:
Title: The Computer and the Brain.
Author: John von Neumann.
Publisher: Yale Nota Bene/Yale University Press
Edition: Second edition, New York (USA), 2000 (1958).
Pages: 82 pages.
ISBN: 0-300-08473-0

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