Editing EDSAC (section)

==Project and plan==
The conception of the EDSAC I can be traced back to 1945, during early planning of the [[EDVAC]]. In June of that year, [[John von Neumann]] wrote his [[First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC]] while taking on a consulting role while [[J. Presper Eckert]] and [[John Mauchly]] were the designers. The document described the concept of a stored-program computer, where both the program and data are stored in the same memory, which is now known as the [[Von Neumann architecture]]; it briefly explains the idea that computer instructions, or the program, could be stored in the same memory as the data, allowing for flexibility and automation in computation.

Later in August 1946, when Wilkes participated in the final weeks of the [[Moore School Lectures]], he was exposed to the principles of the [[ENIAC]] – Eckert and Mauchly's previous invention – and their proposed next project, the EDVAC.<ref name="EDSAC DEV">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-11875821|date=November 30, 2010|title=Father of British computing Sir Maurice Wilkes dies|work=[[BBC News]]|access-date=March 16, 2025}}</ref> He proposed the concept of microprogramming, a system that simplifies the logical design of computers, which later became widely adopted in the industry. Using the knowledge he gathered about the EDVAC's working concept in the lectures, he began development of the EDSAC I in October of that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/mvw1/short-biography.html|title=Maurice V. Wilkes: Shortly Biography|work=[[Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge|Department of Computer Science and Technology]]|access-date=March 16, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.computer.org/pioneers/wilkes.html|title=Maurice Vincent Wilkes - Computer Pioneers|work=[[IEEE Computer Society]]|access-date=March 16, 2025}}</ref>