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In addition, von Neuma
The team at Pe
Over the ensuing years, at patent trials and conferences, in books and dueling historical papers, there would be debates over who deserved the most credit for the ideas developed in 1944 and early 1945 that became part of the stored-program computer. The account above, for example, gives primary credit to Eckert and Mauchly for the stored-program concept and to von Neuma
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Herman Goldstine (1913–2004) circa 1944.
Presper Eckert (center) and CBS’s Walter Cronkite (right) look at an election prediction from UNIVAC in 1952.
Most of us have been involved in group brainstorming sessions that produced creative ideas. Even a few days later, there may be different recollections of who suggested what first, and we realize that the formation of ideas was shaped more by the iterative interplay within the group than by an individual tossing in a wholly original concept. The sparks come from ideas rubbing against each other rather than as bolts out of the blue. This was true at Bell Labs, Los Alamos, Bletchley Park, and Pe
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The benefits and drawbacks of von Neuma
In his handwritten report, which he mailed back to Goldstine at Pe
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The “Draft Report” was an immensely useful document, and it guided the development of subsequent computers for at least a decade. Von Neuma
Eckert and Mauchly saw this differently. “You know, we finally regarded von Neuma