THEORY AND TECHNIQUES FOR DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTERS

Lectures given at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

8 July 1946 - 31 August 1946

1 George Stibitz Introduction to the Course on Electronic Digital Computers
2 Irven Travis The History of Computing Devices
3 J.W. Mauchly Digital and Analogy Computing Machines
4 D.H. Lehmer Computing Machines for Pure Mathematics
5 D.R. Hartree Some General Considerations in the Solutions of Problems in Applied Mathematics
6 H.H. Goldstine Numerical Mathematical Methods  I
7 H.H. Goldstine Numerical Mathematical Methods  II
8 A.W. Burks Digital Machine Functions
9 J.W. Mauchly The Use of Function Tables with Computing Machines
10 J.P. Eckert A Preview of a Digital Computing Machine
11 C.B. Sheppard Elements of a Complete Computing System
12 H.H. Goldstine Numerical Mathematical Methods  III
13 H.H. Aiken The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
14 H.H. Aiken Electro-Mechanical Tables of the Elementary Functions
15 J.P. Eckert Types of Circuit -- General
16 T.K. Sharpless Switching and Coupling Circuits
17 A.W. Burks Numerical Mathematical Methods  IV
18 H.H. Goldstine Numerical Mathematical Methods  V
19 Hans Rademacher On the Accumulation of Errors in Numerical Integration on the ENIAC
20 J.P. Eckert Reliability of Parts
21 C.B. Sheppard Memory Devices
22 J.W. Mauchly Sorting and Collating
23 J.P. Eckert
C.B. Sheppard
Adders
24 J.P. Eckert Multipliers
25 J.W. Mauchly Conversions between Binary and Decimal Number Systems
26 H.H. Goldstine Numerical Mathematical Methods  VI
27 Chuan Chu Magnetic Recording
28 J.P. Eckert Tapetypers and Printing Mechanisms
29 J.H. Curtiss A Review of Government Requirements and Activities in the Field of Automatic Digital Computing Machinery
30 H.H. Goldstine Numerical Mathematical Methods  VII
31 A.W. Burks Numerical Mathematical Methods  VIII
32 Perry Crawford Application of Digital Computation Involving Continuous Input and Output Variables
33 J.P. Eckert Continuous Variable Input and Output Devices
34 S.B. Williams Reliability and Checking in Digital Computing Systems
35 J.P. Eckert Reliability and Checking
36 C.B. Sheppard Code and Control -- I
37 J.W.Mauchly Code and Control -- II   Machine Design and Instruction Codes
38 C.B. Sheppard Code and Control -- III
39 C.N. Mooers Code and Control -- IV   Examples of a Three-Address Code and the Use of 'Stop Order Tags'
40 John von Neumann New Problems and Approaches
41 J.P. Eckert Electrical Delay Lines
42 J.P. Eckert A Parallel-Type EDVAC
43 Jan Rajchman The Selectron
44 C.N. Mooers Discussion of Ideas for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory Computing Machine
45 J.P. Eckert A Parallel Channel Computing Machine
46 C.B. Sheppard A Four-Channel Coded-Decimal Electrostatic Machine
47 T.K. Sharpless Description of Serial Acoustic Binary EDVAC
48 J.W.Mauchly Accumulation of Errors in Numerical Methods


Background and Acknowledgements