<P> On February 15, 1956, von Neumann was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Dwight D. Eisenhower . His citation read: </P> <P> Dr. von Neumann, in a series of scientific study projects of major national significance, has materially increased the scientific progress of this country in the armaments field . </P> <P> Through his work on various highly classified missions performed outside the continental limits of the United States in conjunction with critically important international programs, Dr. von Neumann has resolved some of the most difficult technical problems of national defense . </P> <P> Von Neumann was a founding figure in computing . Donald Knuth cites von Neumann as the inventor, in 1945, of the merge sort algorithm, in which the first and second halves of an array are each sorted recursively and then merged . Von Neumann wrote the 23 pages long sorting program for the EDVAC in ink . On the first page, traces of the phrase "TOP SECRET", which was written in pencil and later erased, can still be seen . He also worked on the philosophy of artificial intelligence with Alan Turing when the latter visited Princeton in the 1930s . </P>

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