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Two New Computers

JUL 01, 1952
At Princeton and Los Alamos
Physics Today

Descriptions of two closely related electronic digital computers, one at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, the other at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico, were made public for the first time in June. Both are designed to perform very high speed calculations in pure and applied mathematics and in mathematical physics.

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