Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.) Electronic Computer Project.
Electronic Computer Project (ECP) records, 1940-1967.
Collection includes: correspondence, papers, reports, contracts, patents, punch cards, blueprints, drawings and diagrams. Significant institutions documented include: Los Alamos National Laboratory; RCA Corporation; International Business Machines Corporation (IBM); U. S. Army Ordnance Department; U. S. Office of Naval Research; U. S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory; U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Individuals documented in the collection include: Frank Aydelotte; Sonja Bargmann; Valentine Bargmann; Nils Barricelli; Julian Bigelow; Garrett Birkhoff; P. A. M. Dirac; Walter Elsasser; Gerald Estrin; Herman H. Goldstine; Jans Maehly; Minot C. Morgan, Jr.; J. Robert Oppenheimer; Peter Panagos; Norman Phillips; J. H. Pomerene; Mina S. Rees; Ralph Slutz; Philip D. Thompson; Oswald Veblen; John Von Neumann; Willis H. Ware; Eugene P. Wigner; and Sung Yuen Wong.
The Electronic Computer Project (ECP) was begun under the aegis of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1945. Much of the funding for the ECP came from government agencies such as the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, the Office of Naval Research, and various branches of the United States Army. In January of 1952, it culminated in the completion of an electronic computing machine. The Institute Computer was functional until 1960; it was then deposited in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, where it remains today.
Aydelotte, Frank, 1880-1956.
Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989-
Birkhoff, Garrett, 1911-1996
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-
Goldstine, Herman H. (Herman Heine), 1913-2004
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Phillips, Norman A., 1923-
Rees, Mina Spiegel, 1902-
Thompson, Philip Duncan
Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960.
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957
Ware, Willis H.
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Electronic Computer Project.
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.) Electronic Computer Project.
International Business Machines Corporation
Los Alamos National Laboratory
RCA Laboratories.
United States. Army. Ordnance Dept.
United States. Office of Naval Research
U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Computers.
Computer science.
Bargmann, Sonja.
Barricelli, Nils Aall, 1912-
Bigelow, Julian Himely.
Estrin, Gerald.
Maehly, Hans J.
Morgan, Minot C., Jr.
Panagos, Peter.
Pomerene, James. H.
Slutz, Ralph J.
Wong, Sung Yuen.
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
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