The
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (commonly shortened to
First Draft) was an
incomplete 101-page document written by
John von Neumann and distributed on June 30, 1945 by
Herman Goldstine, security officer on the classified
ENIAC project. It contains the first published description of the logical design of a computer using the stored-program concept, which has controversially come to be known as the
von Neumann architecture.