page_title: Herman Goldstine
section_title: The EDVAC
hierarchical_section_title: Herman Goldstine / BRL and the Moore School / The EDVAC
caption_attribution_description: English&#x3a;&#32; Left to right: Julian Bigelow, Herman Goldstine, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and John von Neumann at Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, in front of early computer MANIAC.Français&#x202f;&#x3a;&#32; De gauche à droite&#160;: Julian Bigelow, Herman Goldstine, Robert Oppenheimer et John von Neumann à l’Institute for Advanced Study de Princeton, devant l'ordinateur primitif MANIAC.
context_page_description: Herman Heine Goldstine was a mathematician and computer scientist, who worked as the director of the IAS machine at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, and helped to develop ENIAC, the first of the modern electronic digital computers. He subsequently worked for many years at IBM as an IBM Fellow, the company's most prestigious technical position.
context_section_description: In spite of disappointment that ENIAC had not contributed to the war effort, interest remained strong in the Army to develop an electronic computer.  Prior even to the ENIAC's completion, the Army procured a second contract from the Moore School to build a successor machine known as the EDVAC.  Goldstine, Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert and Arthur Burks began to study the development of the new machine in the hopes of correcting the deficiencies of the ENIAC.
caption: Herman Goldstine at The Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (left to right: Julian Bigelow, Herman Goldstine, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and John von Neumann)
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