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EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic computers. It was built by Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : 626–628 Along with ORDVAC , it was a successor to the ENIAC .
John William Mauchly (/ ˈ m ɔː k l i / MAWK-lee; 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.
Mauchly persuaded the United States Census Bureau to order an "EDVAC II" computer – a model that was soon renamed UNIVAC – receiving a contract in 1948 that called for having the machine ready for the 1950 census. Eckert hired a staff that included a number of the engineers from the Moore School, and the company launched an ambitious ...
EDVAC: 1951 1 The successor to ENIAC, and also built by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering for the U.S. Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory. One of the first stored-program computers to be designed, but its entry into service was delayed. EDVAC's design influenced a number of other computers.
Also worked on BINAC (1949), EDVAC (1949), UNIVAC (1951) with Grace Hopper and Jean Bartik, to develop early stored program computers. 1958 McCarthy, John: Invented LISP, a functional programming language. 1956, 2012 McCluskey, Edward J.
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.
EDVAC, conceived in June 1945 in First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, but not delivered until August 1949. It began actual operation (on a limited basis) in 1951. BINAC, delivered to a customer on 22 August 1949. It worked at the factory but there is disagreement about whether or not it worked satisfactorily after being delivered.
edvac The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator ( EDSAC ) was an early British computer. [ 1 ] Inspired by John von Neumann 's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC , the machine was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England.