The Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary - Part 101 fills a gap in the literature by providing instructors, hobbyists, and top-level engineers with an accessible, current reference. From the author of the best-selling Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary, this comprehensive reference includes fundamental physics, basic technical information for fiber splicing, installation, maintenance, and repair, and follow-up information for communications and other professionals using fiber optic components. Well-balanced, well-researched, and extensively cross-referenced, it also includes hundreds of photographs, charts, and diagrams that clarify the more complex ideas and put simpler ideas into their applications context | Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary von Neumann Janos Johann John 1903 1957 A Hungarian-born American mathematician who developed novel and influential theories in advanced mathematics game theory and quantum mechanics. He was fluent in several languages gregarious and considered brilliant even by the elite scientists he worked with on the Manhattan nuclear bomb project. Von Neumann produced a body of work in the mid-1900s that significantly influenced the design and evolution of computing machinery including practical implementation ideas conditional control selfmodifying code program storage and much more. Von Neumann collaborated with Mauchly and Eckert on the EDVAC computer project. See ED VAC. John von Neumann - Mathematician Many of von Neumann s contributions to game theory have applications and consequences for practical applications outside the realm of pure mathematics. These can be applied in the design and operation of thinking machines. von Neumann machine A classification of computing systems based upon the work of John von Neumann that includes single-instruction singledata computation which requires the repeated access and fetching of instructions and data. VoP See voice over packet. VOR VHF omnidirectional range. VP virtual path. A generic term to describe a logical connection consisting of combined virtual channels. In an ATM environment it refers to the unidirectional transport of ATM cells belonging to virtual channels with the same endpoints associated by a common identifier value. Related abbreviations include VPCI Virtual Path Connection Identifier VPI Virtual Path identifier VPL Virtual Path Link and VPT Virtual Path Terminator . See virtual path connection virtual private network. VPC See virtual path connection. VPN See virtual private network. VQ vector quantization. VRAM Video RAM. Memory chips designed to enhance graphics display. Bisynchronous input output. Related is SVRAM Synchronous VRAM which reads only in or out at one time. See .
