First draft of a report on the EDVAC

By J. Neumann. 1993

The first draft of a report on the EDVAC written by John von Neumann is presented. This first draft contains a wealth of information, and it had a pervasive influence when it was first written. Most prominently, Alan Turing cites it in his proposal for the Pilot automatic computing engine (ACE) as the definitive source for understanding the nature and design of a general-purpose digital computer.<<ETX>>

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Neural Turing Machines (2014, background): “Computer programs make use of three fundamental mechanisms: elementary operations (e.g., arithmetic operations), logical ﬂow control (branching), and external memory, which can be written to and read from in the course of computation (Von Neumann, 1945).”
Neural Execution Engines: Learning to Execute Subroutines (2020, methodology): “Growing the sizes of the subroutines that a NEE learns could allow neural networks to supplant general purpose machines for execution efﬁciency, since general-purpose machines require individual sequentially encoded instructions [30].”
SecVisor: a tiny hypervisor to provide lifetime kernel code integrity for commodity OSes (2007, methodology): “which is used by most computing devices today: the von Neumann architecture (also called a stored-program computer) [22].”
Synaptic electronics: materials, devices and applications (2013, methodology): “CMOS logic and the von Neumann architecture [5] has been”
Whitney’s extension problems and interpolation of data (2008, methodology): “The “computer” we have in mind uses standard von Neumann architecture (see [27]), but it works with exact real numbers.”
Program equilibrium (2004, background): “The players’ programs can be specified in any agreed-upon known programming language.”
Information and computation: Classical and quantum aspects (2001, background): “To properly understand this let us first recall the basic operating principles of the ordinary computers we work with as they were introduced by Turing in 1936 and subsequently developed by von Neumann in 1945 (von Neumann, 1945, 1946), among others.”