Editing IAS machine (section)

==History==
[[File:Oppenheimer &amp; Neumann.jpg|thumb|[[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] and John von Neumann in front of the IAS machine]]
[[Julian Bigelow]] was hired as chief engineer in May 1946.<ref name="obit">{{cite news |title= Julian Bigelow, 89, Mathematician and Computer Pioneer |author= John Markoff |date= February 22, 2003 |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/22/business/julian-bigelow-89-mathematician-and-computer-pioneer.html |author-link= John Markoff }}</ref> [[Ralph J. Slutz]], [[Hewitt Crane]], [[Herman Goldstine]], [[Gerald Estrin]], [[Arthur Burks]], [[George W. Brown (academic)|George W. Brown]] and [[Willis Ware]] also worked on the project.<ref name="ias"/>
The machine was in limited operation in the summer of 1951 and fully operational on June 10, 1952.<ref>{{cite book|last=Goldstein|first=Herman|title=The Computer: From Pascal to von Neumann|year=1972|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ|isbn=0-691-02367-0|pages=317–318|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3FvELn2KiUYC&q=ias+1952&pg=PA317}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pmPaAgAAQBAJ&q=%22ias%22+Computer+1951+operation&pg=PA310|title=John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More|last=Macrae|first=Norman|date=1999|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=9780821826768|pages=310|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Automatic Computing Machinery: News - Institute for Advanced Study|journal=Mathematics of Computation|date=Oct 1952|volume=6|issue=40|pages=245–246|doi=10.1090/S0025-5718-52-99384-8|issn=0025-5718|doi-access=free}}</ref> It was in operation until July 15, 1958.<ref>{{citation | first = George | last = Dyson | contribution = George Dyson at the birth of the computer | title = TED (Technology Entertainment Design) | publisher = TED Conferences, LLC | date = March 2003 | contribution-url = http://www.ted.com/talks/george_dyson_at_the_birth_of_the_computer.html | type = Video | access-date = 2012-03-21 | archive-date = 2012-03-17 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120317114011/http://www.ted.com/talks/george_dyson_at_the_birth_of_the_computer.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>