Wikipedia has a paragraph on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the_EDVAC#Controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft

Wikipedia has a paragraph on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the_EDVAC#Controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the... Apparently there was a whole team of people participating in the design: > some on the EDVAC design team contended that the stored-program concept had evolved out of meetings at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering predating von Neumann's activity as a consultant there, and that much of the work represented in the First Draft was no more than a translation of the discussed concepts into the language of formal logic in which von Neumann was fluent. The elegiac Stigler's law of eponymy is mentioned there: “no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”