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The MANIAC (Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator, and Computer or Mathematical Analyzer, Numerator, Integrator, and Computer[1]) was an early computer built under the direction of Nicholas Metropolis at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. It was based on the von Neumann architecture of the IAS, developed by John von Neumann. As with all computers of its era, it was a one of a kind machine that could not exchange programs with other computers (even other IAS machines). Metropolis chose the name MANIAC in the hope of stopping the rash of silly acronyms for machine names (Metropolis 1980).
The MANIAC ran successfully in March 1952. It was succeeded by MANIAC II in 1957.
A third version MANIAC III was built at the Institute for Computer Research at the University of Chicago in 1964.
References
- ^ Pang, Tao (1997). An Introduction to Computational Physics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521481430. OCLC 318210008.
- Brewster, Mike. John von Neumann: MANIAC's Father in BusinessWeek Online, April 8, 2004.
- Harlow, Francis H. and N. Metropolis. Computing & Computers: Weapons Simulation Leads to the Computer Era, including photos of MANIAC I
- N. Metropolis and J. Worlton (January 1980), "A Trilogy on Errors in the History of Computing", Annals of the History of Computing 2 (1): 49–55
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