Abraham H. Taub
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Abraham Haskel Taub was an American mathematician and physicist who made important contributions to the early development of general relativity, as well as differential geometry and differential equat
Abraham Taub
ILLIAC I
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The ILLIAC I, a pioneering computer in the ILLIAC series of computers built in 1952 by the University of Illinois, was the first computer built and owned entirely by a United States educational instit
Abraham H. Taub
…von Neumann's plans. The computer, called ORDVAC, was completed in 1952 and delivered to the Aberdeen Proving Ground. A second copy of the computer, ILLIAC I, remained at Illinois and was the prototype for several other computers. Taub was head of the Digital Computer Laboratory at Illinois from 1961 until…
Memory drum of ILLIAC I, on display at the Spurlock Museum.
Alice (Betsy) E. D. Gillies and Donald B. Gillies with the ILLIAC I at the Digital Computer Lab, Urbana Illinois, circa 1958.