AWhat changed
The circulated EDVAC draft described a computer organized around memory, arithmetic, control and input/output, with instructions represented in memory. It provided an influential account of the stored-program approach.
Scientific scope
The circulated EDVAC draft described a computer organized around memory, arithmetic, control and input/output, with instructions represented in memory. It provided an influential account of the stored-program approach. Scope limitation: The named author of this draft is not the sole inventor of stored-program computing. The report arose within a wider engineering effort; hardware construction, precursor work and priority disputes are outside this scoped record. The DOI dates a 1993 reprint, not the original 1945 contribution.
Evidence
Assessment uses the catalogue-linked source evidence for the stated contribution. The named author of this draft is not the sole inventor of stored-program computing. The report arose within a wider engineering effort; hardware construction, precursor work and priority disputes are outside this scoped record. The DOI dates a 1993 reprint, not the original 1945 contribution.
Contributors
- J. von Neumann · SCIENCE: Named source contributor; exact labor shares are not measured.
- First draft of a report on the EDVAC
- First draft of a report on the EDVAC — deposited bibliography
- First draft of a report on the EDVAC — Smithsonian archive
- EDVAC report — transcribed original
Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.
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