• the "Moore School Lectures") was a course in the construction of electronic digital computers held at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical...
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    First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (1945) and as taught in the Moore School Lectures (1946), influenced an explosion of computer development in the late...
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    J. Presper Eckert (category University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni)
    computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School Lectures), founded the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, and designed...
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  • was one of twenty-eight students chosen to attend the Moore School Lectures, a seminal lecture series in which the revolutionary potential of digital...
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    the EDVAC. Pender also proposed the Moore School Lectures, the first course in computers, which the Moore School offered by invitation in the summer of...
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    Mauchly made the first mention of binary search as part of the Moore School Lectures, a seminal and foundational college course in computing. In 1957...
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    for Design of Digital Computers—more often named the Moore School Lectures. Half of these lectures were given by the inventors of ENIAC. ENIAC was a one-of-a-kind...
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    at the first computer course, which has come to be known as the Moore School Lectures; Goldstine's presentations, given without notes, covered deeply...
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  • impetus for his decision to travel to the United States for the Moore School Lectures in Summer 1946. Von Neumann describes a detailed design of a "very...
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  • the University of Pennsylvania, and Lehmer had given one of the Moore School Lectures. Morton oversaw the design and construction with a team comprising...
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    March 2014 – via YouTube. Chodos, Alan (2022). "August 1946: The Moore School Lectures". APS News. 11 (4). Retrieved 25 January 2022. Goldstine 1980, p...
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    Herman Goldstine. Together, Goldstine and Burks gave nine of the Moore School Lectures in Summer 1946.) During his time at the IAS, Burks worked to expand...
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    the talk "Computing Machines for Pure Mathematics" as part of the Moore School Lectures, in which he introduced computing as an experimental science, and...
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    Wilkes travelled by ship to the United States to enroll in the Moore School Lectures, of which he was only able to attend the final two weeks because...
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  • was introduced by John Mauchly in 1946, in the Moore School Lectures, the first ever set of lectures regarding any computer-related topic. The binary...
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  • Alan, ed. (2002). "This Month in Physics History: August 1946: The Moore School Lectures". APS News. 11 (8). Weik, Martin. "The ENIAC Story". History of...
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  • Jan (23 August 1946). "Lecture 43 - The Selectron". The 1946 Moore School Lectures. RCA Laboratories, Princeton: Moore School of Electrical Engineering...
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    of his physical therapy. He would give "lectures" to troops on their way to the front lines. Sergeant Moore was decorated with the Purple Heart, Bronze...
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  • Perry O. Crawford Jr. (category MIT School of Engineering alumni)
    computers in an air defense system. Crawford also contributed to the Moore School Lectures with a talk entitled "Applications of Digital Computation Involving...
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  • Peter Farquhar (category People educated at Latymer Upper School)
    British teacher of English who taught at Manchester Grammar School and Stowe School. He later lectured at Buckingham University. He also wrote three novels....
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  • successor machine the EDVAC and the principles disseminated at the Moore School Lectures, the ENIAC influenced all future computing machines. The ABC was...
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  • Sarah Jones (Moore) is a British television reporter and presenter. Moore grew up in Redditch, Worcestershire, England and studied Philosophy at the University...
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  • cylinder. C. Bradford Sheppard was one of the teachers in the original Moore School Lectures, given during the summer of 1946. It is trivial to demonstrate that...
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  • computing development.: 148  In 1946, Smith represented the ONR at the Moore School Lectures organized by the ENIAC team. The following year, Smith compiled...
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    Philosophy (1953) [lectures delivered 1910–11] G. E. Moore, Ch. 3, "Propositions" G. E. Moore, Philosophical Papers (1959) G. E. Moore, Ch. 7: "Proof of...
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    a Report on the EDVAC and attending the final two weeks of the Moore School Lectures. EDSAC was the result, and Wilkes also supervised Hartley's PhD...
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  • School of Architecture, a nationwide search finally settled on Moore as his successor in 1965. As Stern observed in his history of the school, Moore was...
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    Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of...
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    Cawker City, Kansas, Moore studied law under C. H. Hawkins. In 1889, he was employed by the National Lecture Bureau, delivering lectures in a manner which...
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    while attending lectures at the University of Chicago that Moore first hit on his original teaching methods. Finding these lectures rather boring, even...
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