The SWAC (Standards Western Automatic Computer) was an early electronic digital computer built in 1950 by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in...
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SWAC may refer to: Scenic West Athletic Conference, an NJCAA conference comprising colleges in the western United States Southwestern Athletic Conference...
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Kummer's approach to the irregular primes. In 1954, Harry Vandiver used a SWAC computer to prove Fermat's Last Theorem for all primes up to 2521. By 1978, Samuel...
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ElectroData Corporation (category Computer companies established in 1954)
development of the SWAC computer on the project. In May 1952, CEC pre-announced the "CEC 30-201" computer, a vacuum tube computer with a magnetic-drum...
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TREAC (category Computer music)
solid state computer). Hollerith Electronic Computer SEAC (computer) SWAC (computer) Early British Computers: The Story of Vintage Computers and the People...
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Dietrich Prinz (category German computer scientists)
to learn about comparative computer advancements where he met Douglas Hartree who worked at the UCLA developing SWAC computer for U.S. National Bureau of...
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1959 SWAC (Standards Western Automatic Computer) List of vacuum-tube computers Manchester Baby "1950 | Timeline of Computer History | Computer History...
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Williams tube (category Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
tube memory from the 1947 patent SWAC Williams tube assembly Diagram of SWAC Williams tube module Atanasoff–Berry computer – Used a type of memory called...
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Friden Flexowriter (category Computer terminals)
SEA CAB 500 The ALWAC III-E The English Electric KDF9 SWAC (Standards Western Automatic Computer), where a separate Flexowriter was used for input, and...
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UNIVAC I (redirect from Universal automatic computer)
of SEAC, SWAC, and DYSEAC; programming instructions for the UNIVAC, LARC, and MIDAC; patent evaluations and disclosures relevant to computers; system descriptions;...
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Von Neumann architecture (redirect from Von Neumann computer)
architecture—also known as the von Neumann model or Princeton architecture—is a computer architecture based on the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, written...
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and imagining of what computers could do. ~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates. Biography portal Lists portal Computer Pioneer Award IEEE John...
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of SEAC, SWAC, and DYSEAC; programming instructions for the UNIVAC, LARC, and MIDAC; patent evaluations and disclosures relevant to computers; system descriptions;...
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Killgrove and K. E. Ralston, took advantage of the state-of-the-art SWAC computer installed at UCLA and confirmed it for the first 63419 primes. Unknown...
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The Computer Pioneer Award was established in 1981 by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society to recognize and honor the vision of those people...
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was demonstrated in December 1950. The Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) was completed in July 1950. The Whirlwind was completed in December...
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Harry Huskey (category Computer designers)
Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles (1949–1953). He also designed the G-15 computer for Bendix Aviation...
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Tigers, compete in NCAA Division I and the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). Texas Southern is home of the Ocean of Soul marching band. On March 7,...
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Bendix G-15 (category Computer-related introductions in 1956)
(ACE) in the United Kingdom and on the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) in the 1950s. He made most of the design while working as a professor...
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Bendix Corporation (redirect from Bendix Computer)
Huskey, who had worked with Alan Turing on the ACE in the UK and on the SWAC in the 1950s. Huskey created most of the design while working as a professor...
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compete in NCAA Division I as members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). Teacher and schoolmaster William Hooper Councill won approval for his plan...
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Vacuum-tube computers, now called first-generation computers, are programmable digital computers using vacuum-tube logic circuitry. They were preceded...
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volleyball. Texas College was a member of the SWAC from 1920 to 1961 (41 years). Texas College was SWAC football champions in 1934, 1935, 1936, 1942 and...
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John A. Postley (section Introduction to computers)
Numerical Analysis where he helped to build SWAC (Standards Western Automatic Computer), the second ever computer (after ENIAC), which was dedicated on August...
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compete in NCAA Division I as members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). Alabama State University was founded in 1867 as the Lincoln Normal School...
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denote the values 10–15 as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. The SWAC (1950) and Bendix G-15 (1956) computers used the lowercase letters u, v, w, x, y and z for the...
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Framebuffer (category Computer graphics)
that can be displayed on a computer monitor. In computing, a screen buffer is a part of computer memory used by a computer application for the representation...
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D. H. Lehmer (section ENIAC and computer science)
Numerical Analysis (INA), working with the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC). On October 17, 1952, the State Supreme Court proclaimed the oath unconstitutional...
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1952, using the U.S. National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the Institute for Numerical Analysis at the University of California...
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have played selected regular season home games at NRG Stadium as well. The SWAC Championship Game was held at the stadium from 2013 until 2017. In 2017,...
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