John von Neumann's 1945 report, an incomplete document written by hand and typed up by Herman Goldstine, who circulated it from 30 June 1945, describing the logical design of a computer that stores both its instructions and its data in one uniform memory, the first published description of what became known as the stored-program, or von Neumann, architecture.
Facts
AuthorJohn von Neumann
PublisherMoore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year1945
Source TypePrimary document
Reliability Tier1
The primary circulated document in which the stored-program design was first described, the architecture's own foundational source; its authorship credited von Neumann alone despite design contributions from Mauchly and Eckert, a documented dispute this atlas names rather than omits. Sources
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
John von Neumann, Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1945
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