First draft of a report on the EDVAC

The work

AuthorsJohn von Neumann
Editors
Typetechreport
Year1945
Citekeyneumann1945first

Where it appeared

PublisherMoore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

Settled

AbstractNo abstract, and none will be found. A note on this record already established it -- headed "No abstract, and none will be found -- recorded so the queue's repeated request has an answer on the record" -- but the finding was never written into the field, so the queue went on asking. This settle records it where the queue can see it. The document is a 1945 typescript report that opens on numbered sections; the copy is an image-only scan of 216 leaves whose OCR is poor, so there is nothing to harvest even if the genre had abstracts.

A copy is held

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Cite it as

@techreport{neumann1945first,
  title        = {First draft of a report on the EDVAC},
  author       = {John von Neumann},
  year         = {1945},
  publisher    = {Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania},
  doi          = {10.5479/sil.538961.39088011475779},
}

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