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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The recent mention on this list of Klara von Neumann as an underappreciated female pioneer of programming and scientific computation reminded me that she has a central role in “Los Alamos Bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo Simulations, 1947-48,” which I recently published with Mark Priestley and Crispin Rope. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is the third and final paper in our series on ENIAC’s 1947-1948 conversion to the modern code paradigm (i.e. the programming method introduced in von Neumann’s “First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC”) and the implications of this for our conventional understanding of the story of the “stored program computer.” The Monte Carlo code in question is the best documented programming effort of the 1940s and it was fascinating to reconstruct its evolution through the initial process of planning and over several major revisions. As I am recently urged you to beware the assumption that “firsts” are automatically important, I hope you will forgive me for mentioning in passing that this appears to be the first modern program ever executed. We hope that this paper will also be of interest to historians of science as well as to the core Annals audience, particularly as we fill some substantial narrative holes left by Peter Galison when he covered some of the same ground in his celebrated “Computer Simulation and the Trading Zone” (later the basis of a chapter in his even more celebrated <i>Image and Logic</i>).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The paper is available from the IEEE Computer Society at <a href="http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/an/2014/02/man2014020041-abs.html">http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/an/2014/02/man2014020041-abs.html</a> (please use this method if you have access, as the clicks benefit Annals) or from my personal website at <a href="http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Writing/LosAlamosBetsOnENIAC.pdf">http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Writing/LosAlamosBetsOnENIAC.pdf</a>. Various supporting materials can be found at <a href="http://www.EniacInAction.com">www.EniacInAction.com</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Our thanks go to all those in the SIGCIS community who contributed to the papers in this series.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>