More to the Moore School controversy, actually, but any complete discussion will mention Zuse as well.  Zuse's ideas, of course, did not come to be known until after the stored program concept was already firmly established, and historians began looking into earlier claims.  It is clear that it was the distribution of the First Draft, in combination with the Moore School Lectures, that cemented this architecture as the standard for general purpose computing machines in the '40s/'50s.