Editing IAS machine (section)

{{short description|First electronic computer to be built at the Institute for Advanced Study}}
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| developer    = [[John von Neumann]]
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[[File:James Pomerene IAS machine.jpg|thumb|[[James Pomerene]] working on the IAS machine]]

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. The computer was built under his direction, starting in 1946 and finished in 1951.<ref name="nmah">{{cite web |title=The IAS Computer, 1952 |publisher= [[National Museum of American History]], Smithsonian Institution |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_334741 }}</ref>
The general organization is called [[von Neumann architecture]], even though it was both conceived and implemented by others.<ref name="org">{{cite book |title= Computer Organization |author1=Deepali A.Godse |author2= Atul P.Godse |pages= 3–9 |publisher= Technical Publications |year= 2010 |isbn= 978-81-8431-772-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIHgbyyEIHoC&pg=PA3 }}</ref>  The computer is in the collection of the [[Smithsonian National Museum of American History]] but is not currently on display.<ref>[http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_334741 Smithsonian IAS webpage]</ref>