• DocumentCode
    957882
  • Title

    First draft of a report on the EDVAC

  • Author

    von Neumann, J.

  • Volume
    15
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    6/15/1905 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    27
  • Lastpage
    75
  • Abstract
    The first draft of a report on the EDVAC written by John von Neumann is presented. This first draft contains a wealth of information, and it had a pervasive influence when it was first written. Most prominently, Alan Turing cites it in his proposal for the Pilot automatic computing engine (ACE) as the definitive source for understanding the nature and design of a general-purpose digital computer.<>
  • Keywords
    digital computers; history; EDVAC; automatic computing engine; general-purpose digital computer; history; Electrical engineering; Engines; Forward contracts; History; Laboratories; Mathematics; Pain; Physics computing; Proposals; Statistics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/85.238389
  • Filename
    238389
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=957882