Moore School of Electrical Engineering

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The Moore School of Electrical Engineering is a historic department at the University of Pennsylvania renowned as a birthplace of early computer engineering, including pioneering work on the ENIAC and EDVAC.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf academic department
engineering school
affiliation School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania
associatedWith EDVAC
ENIAC
J. Presper Eckert
John W. Mauchly
von Neumann architecture development
campus University of Pennsylvania campus
contributedTo stored-program computer architecture concepts
training of early computer engineers
country United States
educationLevel graduate
undergraduate
field electrical engineering
foundedBy bequest of Alfred Fitler Moore
hasFacility historic ENIAC installation site
hasRole birthplace of EDVAC design
birthplace of ENIAC
hasType research institution
university department
heritageStatus historic computing site
historicalPeriod World War II era
early Cold War era
knownFor Moore School Lectures on computing
development of ENIAC
early computer engineering
pioneering digital computing research
work on EDVAC
languageOfInstruction English
locatedIn Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
locatedInOrganization University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science
namedAfter Alfred Fitler Moore
partOf University of Pennsylvania
researchArea communications
computer engineering
control systems
electronics
significance early center for electronic digital computer design
milestone institution in history of computing

Referenced by (6)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
EDVAC
ENIAC project
location
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
associatedWith
EDVAC
developer
J. Presper Eckert
educatedAt
John W. Mauchly ("Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania")
employer

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