> but even after they were no longer bound by secrecy they never published anything important There were a lot of publications; the first one in September 1945

> but even after they were no longer bound by secrecy they never published anything important There were a lot of publications; the first one in September 1945 (three month after Goldstein disclosed the Neuman paper) named "Automatic High Speed Computing, A Progress Report on the EDVAC" (see https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102724629 https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10272462...), which was also prior to the patent and yet another reason for its invalidity. > I have not seen any document from them that could establish credibly how much von Neumann learned from them and how much they have learned from von Neumann. Having a look at the timeline Neumann was not aware of the project before the ENIAC design was completed.