* ILLIAC II

ILLIAC I was retired in 1962, when the ILLIAC II became operational.

* ILLIAC II

* ILLIAC II

ILLIAC II Modules in 2006 ( Courtesy Donald B. Gillies Family )

The ILLIAC II was a revolutionary super-computer built by the University of Illinois that became operational in 1962.

ILLIAC II had 8192 words of core memory, backed up by 65, 536 words of storage on magnetic drums.

* The ILLIAC II was one of the first transistorized computers.

Like the IBM Stretch computer, ILLIAC II was designed using " future transistors " that had not yet been invented.

* The ILLIAC II project was proposed before, and competed with IBM's Stretch project, and several ILLIAC designers felt that Stretch borrowed many of its ideas from ILLIAC II, whose design and documentation were published openly as University of Illinois Tech Reports.

* The ILLIAC II had a division unit designed by faculty member James E. Robertson, a co-inventor of the SRT Division algorithm.

* The ILLIAC II was one of the first pipelined computers, along with IBM's Stretch Computer.

* The ILLIAC II was the first computer to incorporate Speed-Independent Circuitry, invented by faculty member David E. Muller.

During check-out of the ILLIAC II, before it became fully operational, faculty member Donald B. Gillies programmed ILLIAC II to search for mersenne prime numbers.

The ILLIAC II computer was disassembled roughly a decade after its construction.

The Trusted ILLIAC was completed in 2006 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Coordinated Science Laboratory and Information Trust Institute.

J. P. Nash of the University of Illinois was a developer of both the ORDVAC and of the university's own identical copy, the ILLIAC, which was later renamed the ILLIAC I. Donald B. Gillies assisted in the checkout of ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

* 1957, Mathematician Donald B. Gillies, Physicist, James E. Snyder and Astronomers George C. McVittie, S. P. Wyatt, Ivan R. King and George W. Swenson of the University of Illinois used the ILLIAC I computer to calculate the orbit of the Sputnik I satellite within 2 days of its launch.

* 1960, The first version of the PLATO computer-based education system was implemented on the ILLIAC I by a team led by Donald Bitzer.

Donald W. Gillies, the son of Donald B. Gillies, has a complete set of documentation ( instruction set, design reports, research reports, and grant progress reports, roughly 2000 pages ) from the ILLIAC II project.

In 1963 Donald B. Gillies ( who designed the control ) used the ILLIAC II to find three Mersenne primes, with 2917, 2993, and 3376 digits-the largest primes known at the time.

* Burroughs collaborated with University of Illinois on a multiprocessor architecture developing the ILLIAC IV computer in the early 1960s.

Wheeler discusses projects that were run on EDSAC, user-oriented programming methods, and the influence of EDSAC on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701.

Another example is CFD, a special variant of Fortran designed specifically for the ILLIAC IV supercomputer, running at NASA's Ames Research Center.

* ILLIAC I – First computer to calculate the orbit of Sputnik I.

In 1962, Westinghouse cancelled the project, but the effort was re-started at the University of Illinois as the ILLIAC IV.

Nevertheless it showed that the basic concept was sound, and, when used on data-intensive applications, such as computational fluid dynamics, the " failed " ILLIAC was the fastest machine in the world.

The ILLIAC approach of using separate ALUs for each data element is not common to later designs, and is often referred to under a separate category, massively parallel computing.

Some compilers in this category provide special constructs or extensions to allow programmers to directly specify operations to be performed in parallel ( e. g., DO FOR ALL statements in the version of FORTRAN used on the ILLIAC IV, which was a SIMD multiprocessing supercomputer ).

When ASC machines first became available in the early 1970s they outperformed almost all other machines, including the CDC STAR-100, and under certain conditions matched that of the infamous one-off ILLIAC IV.

Unlike the other computers of its era, the ORDVAC and ILLIAC I were twins and could exchange programs with each other.

The later SILLIAC computer was a copy of the ORDVAC / ILLIAC series.

Memory drum of ILLIAC I, on display at the Spurlock Museum.

The ILLIAC I ( Illinois Automatic Computer ), a pioneering computer built in 1952 by the University of Illinois, was the first computer built and owned entirely by a US educational institution, Manchester University UK having built Manchester Mark 1 in 1948.

ILLIAC I was based on the Institute for Advanced Study ( IAS ) Von Neumann architecture as described by mathematician John von Neumann in his influential First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC.

Unlike most computers of its era, the ILLIAC I and ORDVAC computers were twin copies of the same design, with software compatibility.

Gillies and Dr Jim Snyder programmed the ILLIAC I computer to calculate the satellite orbit from this data in under two days.

Starting in 1958, Gillies designed the 3-stage pipeline control of the ILLIAC II supercomputer at the University of Illinois.

During check-out of the ILLIAC II computer, Gillies found 3 new Mersenne primes, and published them in a paper, " Three new Mersenne primes and a statistical theory.

* 1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.

The Controlled Substances Act ( CSA ) was enacted into law by the Congress of the United States as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970.

Some stayed in use for decades after World War II ; the Mark I Fire Control Computer was deployed by the United States Navy on a variety of ships from destroyers to battleships.

* Information Control Division, a U. S. Army department in occupied Germany after World War II

Control passed to Japan in 1914 and during World War II the islands were taken by the United States in 1944, with the costly Battle of Peleliu between September 15 and November 25 with more than 2, 000 Americans and 10, 000 Japanese killed.

Civilian ownership of submachine guns is regulated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives under the provisions of the National Firearms Act of 1934 as amended by Title II of the Gun Control Act of 1968.

* Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters begins on February 17, 2155.

* The TIROS I and II Ground Control Station where the first Earth Observing Satellite ( TIROS I ) sent it first photos-http :// www. campevans. org / _CE / html / tiros1-2. html

The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 99th Congress, S. 1702,, title II, December 12, 1985,, ) and Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987 (, title I, Sept. 29, 1987,, ) ( both often known as Gramm-Rudman ) were, according to U. S. Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, " the first binding constraint imposed on federal spending, and its spending caps have become part of every subsequent U. S. budget.

Following the first published use of FTA in the 1962 Minuteman I Launch Control Safety Study, Boeing and AVCO expanded use of FTA to the entire Minuteman II system in 1963-1964.

Following his involvement there in a program to teach analytical approaches used in business to officers of the United States Army Air Forces, he entered the USAAF as a captain in early 1943, serving most of World War II with its Office of Statistical Control.

In 1973 the AWACS demonstration took place with interfaces to the British Linesman system, the French Strida II system, the NATO Ground Environment System in Germany and an element of the U. S. 407L Tactical Command and Control System in Belgium and 407L systems at Sembach and Neu Ulm in Germany.

Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters was written by Toys for Bob ( Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III ) and originally published by Accolade in 1992 for DOS ; it was later ported to the 3DO with an enhanced multimedia presentation, allowed by the CD technology.

Star Control 3 was developed by Legend Entertainment, hired by Accolade to create a sequel when the original creators expressed disinterest in creating a sequel for the same amount of money they were paid for Star Control II ( which left them working for several months without pay ).

The story expanded on the mystery of the Precursors ' disappearance and introduced new enemies in the form of the Hegemonic Crux, however, it also removed several aspects of game play present in Star Control II, such as the ability to modify the equipment and capabilities of the player's flagship.

In February 2009, Cedric Horner undertook the creation of a Star Control II mod based on the source files released by Toys For Bob in 2002.

* Tea Leaves, spoiler-free review and retrospective of Star Control II

In North America, WABCO supplied HSC ( High Speed Control ) brake equipment for several post-World War II streamlined passenger trains.

Star Control II is a critically acclaimed science fiction video game, the second game in the Star Control trilogy.

Star Control II added a large number of species and ship types to the already diverse cast and replaced the first game's strategy-based scenarios with a story-driven space exploration adventure game that included diplomacy with the inhabitants of the galaxy, some resource gathering sub-sections, and instances of the melee combat of the first game whenever diplomacy failed.

Star Control II was highly influenced, both in story and game design, by the games Starflight ( 1986 ) and Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula ( 1989 ), developed by Binary Systems and released on a variety of platforms by Electronic Arts.