Around 1945, who developed the idea of the stored-program computer that was to hold programs and data in a memory, from where data would move between the memory and the processor?

John von Neumann set out the stored-program idea around 1945, holding both programs and data together in memory.

In this design data moves between the memory and the processor as instructions are carried out.

Alan Turing framed the theoretical model of computation but not this specific stored-program architecture.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web decades later, in 1989.

Charles Babbage designed the mechanical Analytical Engine in the nineteenth century.

Almost all modern computers still follow the von Neumann architecture.