On 8 July seventy years ago, the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania launched an inspiring summer course on computing science. This course stimulated universities and research institutes to embark on the construction of stored-program computers.

These free of fee lectures opened to the public inspired the constructions of machines such as the EDSAC, BINAC, and the clones of the IAS machines (like the AVIDAC, etc).

Source: www.computerhistory.org/tdih/July/8