Today in 1946, the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering launched a summer school on computing that stimulated construction of stored-program computers.
It was the first time that computer-related subjects had been taught to a group of “students,” in this case experienced engineers or mathematicians, all invited by the organizers. The course disseminated the ideas developed for the EDVAC (see June 30), then being built at the Moore School as the successor computer to the ENIAC, and influenced the development of early computers in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany.