The First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (commonly shortened to First Draft) was an incomplete 101-page document written by John von Neumann and distributed on June 30, 1945 by Herman Goldstine, security officer on the classified ENIAC project. EDVAC ( E lectronic D iscrete V ariable A utomatic C omputer) was one of the earliest electronic Computers An unfinished work is a Creative work that has not been finished Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Herman Heine Goldstine ( September 13, 1913 &ndash June 16, 2004) Mathematician, Computer scientist and Scientific ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first general-purpose electronic Computer. It contains the first published description of the logical design of a computer using the stored-program concept, which has come to be known as the von Neumann architecture. The von Neumann architecture is a design model for a stored-program Digital computer that uses a processing unit and a single separate storage structure
The title page of the report reads:
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
by John von Neumann,
Contract No. W-670-ORD-4926,
Between the United States Army Ordnance Department
and the University of Pennsylvania Moore School of Electrical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
June 30, 1945
Von Neumann wrote the report by hand while commuting by train to Los Alamos, New Mexico and mailed the handwritten notes back to Philadelphia. Los Alamos (Los Álamos meaning "The Cottonwoods quot is a Townsite and Census-designated place (CDP in Los Alamos County, Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə Goldstine had the report typed and duplicated. While the date on the typed report is June 30, 24 copies of the First Draft were distributed to persons closely connected with the EDVAC project five days earlier on June 25. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians Interest in the report caused it to be sent all over the world; Maurice Wilkes of Cambridge University cited his excitement over the report's content as the impetus for his decision to travel to the United States for the Moore School Lectures in Summer 1946. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Theory and Techniques for Design of Electronic Digital Computers (popularly called the "Moore School Lectures") was a course in the construction of electronic
The treatment of the preliminary report as a publication (in the legal sense) was the source of bitter acrimony between factions of the EDVAC design team for two reasons. EDVAC ( E lectronic D iscrete V ariable A utomatic C omputer) was one of the earliest electronic Computers First, publication amounted to a public disclosure that prevented the EDVAC from being patented; second, some on the EDVAC design team contended that the stored-program concept had evolved out of meetings at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering predating von Neumann's activity as a consultant there, and that much of the work represented in the First Draft was no more than a translation of the discussed concepts into the language of formal logic in which von Neumann was fluent, hence, failure of von Neumann and Goldstine to list others as authors on the First Draft led credit to be attributed to von Neumann alone. The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania came into existence as a result of an endowment from Alfred Fitler Moore on June 4, 1923 Logic is the study of the principles of valid demonstration and Inference. (See Matthew effect. The " Matthew effect " denotes the phenomenon that "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" and can be observed in various different contexts where "rich" )
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- Goldstine, Herman H. (1972). Herman Heine Goldstine ( September 13, 1913 &ndash June 16, 2004) Mathematician, Computer scientist and Scientific The Computer: from Pascal to von Neumann. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02367-0.
- Stern, Nancy (1981). From ENIAC to UNIVAC, An appraisal of the Eckert-Mauchly Computers. Bedford, Massachusetts: Digital Press. ISBN 0-932376-14-2.
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