EDVAC ( Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer ) was one of the earliest electronic computers.

The ENIAC patent, issued in 1964 was filed on June 26, 1947, and granted February 4, 1964, but the public disclosure of design details of EDVAC in the First Draft ( which were also common to ENIAC ) was later cited as one cause for the 1973 invalidation of the ENIAC patent.

John William Mauchly ( August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980 ) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.

Eckert and Mauchly, though they had started the design of EDVAC at the University of Pennsylvania, chose to leave and start EMCC, the first computer company.

* June 30-Distribution of John von Neumann's First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, containing the first published description of the logical design of a computer with stored-program and instruction data stored in the same address space within the memory ( von Neumann architecture ).

During his tenure the Moore School built the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and began construction on its successor machine, the EDVAC.

The architecture for the first two UIUC computers was taken from a technical report from a committee at the Institute for Advanced Study ( IAS ) at Princeton, First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, edited by John von Neumann ( but with ideas from Eckert & Mauchley and many others.

The stored-program concept had been first widely published in 1945 in the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC and became known as the Von Neumann architecture.

The EDVAC was the ENIAC successor ( first working in 1949 ), designed by the team who then marketed the UNIVAC.

Significantly, the programs written for EDVAC were stored in high-speed computer memory rather than specified by the physical wiring of the computer.

John von Neumann, who was consulting for the Moore School on the EDVAC sat in on the Moore School meetings at which the stored program concept was elaborated.

* EDVAC binary electronic stored program computer incorporating high speed delay line memory begins operation at the United States Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

He mentions the EDVAC, the ENIAC's successor, and its innovation of stored programming, for which he credits John von Neumann.

* Preliminary design work on the ENIAC's successor machine the EDVAC resulted in the stored program concept used in all computers today, the logical design having been promulgated in John von Neumann's First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, a set of notes synthesized from meetings he attended at the Moore School.

With von Neumann's design, the program, or software, that EDVAC ran could be changed simply by changing the contents of the memory.

Tube computers like EDVAC tended to average eight hours between failures, whereas relay computers like the ( slower, but earlier ) Harvard Mark I failed very rarely.

Many early electronic computers were based on the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC report published in 1945.

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`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

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But Adams was one of the first to suggest that this human incompetence was the only motivating factor behind religion.

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