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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 von Neumann machine, since the paper describing its design was edited by John von Neumann, a mathematics professor at both Princeton University and IAS, and the computer was built under his direction. Construction started in 1946 and finished in 1951. The general organization it established is called von Neumann architecture, even though it was both conceived and implemented by others.
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SignificanceEstablished what is now called the von Neumann architecture, a general organization the article's own lead states was both conceived and implemented by others, even though the machine is popularly named for von Neumann because he edited the paper describing the design. 1 A naming-versus-credit distinction the article states directly: the design is popularly attributed to von Neumann's name, but the lead itself says the architecture was conceived and implemented by others. Cross-Tradition Connections
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JOHNNIAC, Systems JOHNNIAC, built by RAND in 1953, was based on the von Neumann architecture pioneered on the IAS machine, sharing its 40-bit word length.
MANIAC I, Systems MANIAC I was based on the IAS machine's von Neumann architecture, though it remained a distinct, one-of-a-kind machine unable to exchange programs with other IAS-derived computers.
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1. Wikipedia: IAS machine
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The general organization is called von Neumann architecture, even though it was both conceived and implemented by others.
Wikipedia: JOHNNIAC
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The JOHNNIAC is an early computer built in 1953 by the RAND Corporation (not Remington Rand, maker of the contemporaneous UNIVAC I computer) and based on the von Neumann architecture that had been pioneered on the IAS machine.
Wikipedia: MANIAC I
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It was based on the von Neumann architecture of the IAS, developed by John von Neumann.
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