Students
28 students were invited to attend the Moore School Lectures, each a veteran engineer or mathematician:
- Sam N. Alexander, Edward W. Cannon, and Roger Curtis of the National Bureau of Standards
- Mark Breiter of the War Department's Office of the Chief of Ordnance
- Arthur B. Horton, Warren S. Loud, and Lou D. Wilson of MIT
- David R. Brown and Robert R. Everett of the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory
- Frank M. Verzuh of MIT's Rockefeller Electronic Computer Project
- Howard L. Clark and G.W. Hobbs of General Electric Co.
- R.D. Elbourne of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, who worked for John Vincent Atanasoff
- Herbert Galman and Joshua Rosenbloom of the Frankford Arsenal
- Orin P. Gard of Wright Field's Armament Laboratory
- Simon E. Gluck of the Moore School
- D.H. Gridley and Louis Suss of the Naval Research Laboratory
- Samuel Lubkin of Aberdeen Proving Ground's Ballistics Research Laboratory
- James T. Pendergrass of the OP-20-G CNO Navy Department
- David Rees of Manchester University, England
- Albert Sayre of the Army Security Agency
- Phillip A. Shaffer, Jr. of the Naval Ordnance Testing Station, Pasadena, California
- Claude E. Shannon of Bell Telephone Laboratories
- Albert E. Smith of the Navy Office of Research and Inventions
- Maurice V. Wilkes of Cambridge University, who joined the course only for its final two weeks after numerous problems with his travel
- H.I. Zagor of the Reeves Instrument Company
Uninvited attendees saw at least some of the lectures:
- Cuthbert Hurd of Allegheny College
- Jay Forrester of MIT
- Unidentified representatives of the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory who took the place of Brown and Everett on any given week
Additionally, many of the lecturers attended a number of the lectures by others.
The individuals and institutions represented at the Moore School Lectures went on to be involved with numerous successful computer construction projects in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including EDSAC, BINAC, UNIVAC, CALDIC, SEAC and SWAC, the IAS machine, and the Whirlwind.
The success of the Moore School Lectures prompted Harvard University to host the first computer conference in January, 1947; that same year the Association for Computing Machinery was founded as a professional society to organize future conferences.
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