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    The IAS machine was the first electronic computer built at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. It is sometimes called the...
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  • IAS may refer to: Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States Image Analysis & Stereology, the official journal of the International...
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  • architecture IAS machine, a computer designed in the 1940s based on von Neumann's design Self-replicating machine, a class of machines that can replicate...
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  • The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It...
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    TIFR Pilot Machine was developed in the 1950s (operational in 1956). Based on the IAS machine design, the development of the final machine was started...
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    basis of most modern computer designs. Next, von Neumann designed the IAS machine at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He arranged...
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    developed by Jerrier Haddad and Nathaniel Rochester and was based on the IAS machine at Princeton. The IBM 701 was the first computer in the IBM 700/7000...
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    called the IAS machine, although it was also called the MANIAC, a name that was later transferred to the successful clone of this machine at Los Alamos...
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    WEIZAC (category IAS architecture computers)
    initiated by Prof. Chaim L. Pekeris, who worked at the IAS at the time von Neumann's IAS machine was being designed. Chaim Weizmann, Israel's future first...
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  • the Machine", Sydney Brenner discusses von Neumann's contributions to biology, his theoretical work on self-replicating and self-repairing machines, and...
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    designed and built the MANIAC I computer in 1952 that was modeled on the IAS machine, and the MANIAC II in 1957. Nicolas Metropolis was born on June 11, 1915...
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    processors came to Daniel Slotnick while working as a programmer on the IAS machine in 1952. A formal design did not start until 1960, when Slotnick was...
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  • code-breaking machine built in 1944. It was a six-stage device built of vacuum tubes and thyratrons. A shift register was also used in the IAS machine, built...
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    be useful to create a "library" of subroutines for their work on the IAS machine, an early computer that was not yet operational at that time. They envisioned...
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    mathematician and computer scientist, who worked as the director of the IAS machine at the Institute for Advanced Study and helped to develop ENIAC, the...
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  • and reported that he could not find the bug. The early computers of IAS machine design had no index register. Using self-modifying code was necessary...
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    JOHNNIAC (category IAS architecture computers)
    based on the von Neumann architecture that had been pioneered on the IAS machine. It was named in honor of von Neumann, short for John von Neumann Numerical...
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  • (EDSAC), the University of Pennsylvania (EDVAC), and Princeton University (IAS machine) allowed computers to be easily reprogrammed to undertake a variety of...
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    AVIDAC (category IAS architecture computers)
    its era, it was a one-of-a-kind machine that could not exchange programs with other computers (even other IAS machines). List of vacuum-tube computers...
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    (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, under the leadership of John von Neumann. The project built a parallel stored program computer called the IAS machine that...
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    von Neumann recommended against floating-point numbers for the 1951 IAS machine, arguing that fixed-point arithmetic is preferable. The first commercial...
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    Research Laboratory, Computing Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground 1951) IAS machine at Institute for Advanced Study (1951) ORDVAC (University of Illinois)...
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  • In 1947 reports by von Neumann and Goldstine on their design for the IAS machine, they described algorithms using an early version of flow charts, in...
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  • be addressed (i.e. selected during the memory operation). Instructions Machine instructions are normally the size of the architecture's word, such as...
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    Indicated airspeed (IAS) is the airspeed of an aircraft as measured by its pitot-static system and displayed by the airspeed indicator (ASI). This is...
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  • ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/patents/ Desch J.R., "Calculating Machine", US Pat. 2,595,045, filed March 20, 1940, granted Apr. 29, 1952 Aspray...
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    Rutishauser and Speiser became acquainted with the Harvard Mark III and the IAS machine. In 1950, the Institut für angewandte Mathematik (Institute for Applied...
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    BESK (category IAS architecture computers)
    modeled on the IAS machine for which the design team had retrieved drawings during a scholarship to Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and Massachusetts...
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    the world until IAS machine. Sep 1950 GER Konrad Zuse leased his Z4 machine to the ETH Zurich for five years. Z4 was a relay-based machine. The corresponding...
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    computers in the United States also used Williams tubes, including the IAS machine (originally designed for Selectron tube memory), the UNIVAC 1103, IBM...
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