Editing ILLIAC I (section)

{{short description|Vacuum tube computer built in 1952 by the University of Illinois}}
[[File:Illiac memory drum IMG 1108.jpg|thumb|Memory drum of ILLIAC I, on display at the [[Spurlock Museum]].]]
[[File:Donald Betsy Gillies Illiac I.jpg|thumb|Alice (Betsy) E. D. Gillies and Donald B. Gillies with the ILLIAC I at the Digital Computer Lab, [[University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign|Urbana Illinois]], circa 1958.]]
The '''ILLIAC I''' ('''Illinois Automatic Computer'''), a pioneering [[computer]] in the [[ILLIAC]] series of computers built in 1952 by the [[University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois]], was the first computer built and owned entirely by a United States educational institution.