Recently, I came across a book about Grace Hopper where it is stated that Howard Aiken wanted her to become familiar with papers by Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage as he considered some of Babbage's ideas interesting and worth implementing.
Personally, I have always suspected that the von Neumann scheme is very similar to a design of Babbage's analytical engine - there are input and output devices, a controller, memory, and ALU (a mill in Babbage's words).
So, my question is if any other of modern computing pioneers - like von Neumann, Mauchly, Eckert, Bush, Atanasoff, Zuse to name few - also claimed that they were inspired by Babbage's and Lovelace's work. Any link to literature/articles/papers will be appreciated.