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Physically, IAS Machine-tan is slightly overweight, silver-haired and golden-eyed. She's described as imposing despite being average in height, and having a fondness for conservative business-wear. | Physically, IAS Machine-tan is slightly overweight, silver-haired and golden-eyed. She's described as imposing despite being average in height, and having a fondness for conservative business-wear. | ||
A prolific scientist and mathematician, IAS worked on a variety of scientific projects - including ones involving nuclear and hydrogen bombs - and managed to be largely successful despite having no sense of internal timekeeping and trouble keeping up with her assignments. A confident and jovial woman, she | A prolific scientist and mathematician, IAS worked on a variety of scientific projects - including ones involving nuclear and hydrogen bombs - and managed to be largely successful despite having no sense of internal timekeeping and trouble keeping up with her assignments. A confident and jovial woman, she's known to have a great love of food and drink, notoriously dirty sense of humor (manifested through a fondness for telling bawdy limericks and jokes) and enjoyment of playing games and practical jokes - a favorite of hers being mimicking "regular" human beings in her daily life. In spite of such fanciful pursuits, she remains rather politically-conservative and "straight-laced" compared to her peers and children. | ||
==Family== | |||
IAS-tan is the genetic mother of every IAS Machine/Von Neumann Machine to come. Her disparate family encompasses over a dozen direct descendants from all corners of the world: | |||
[[AVIDAC]] (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA) | |||
[[BESK]] (Stockholm, Sweden) | |||
[[BESM]] (Moscow, Russia) | |||
[[CYCLONE]] (Iowa State University, USA) | |||
[[GEORGE]] (Argonne National Laboratory) | |||
[[ILLIAC]] (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | |||
[[JOHNNIAC]] (RAND) | |||
[[MANIAC]] (Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA) | |||
[[MISTIC]] (Michigan State University) | |||
[[MUSASINO]] (Musashino, Tokyo, Japan) | |||
[[ORACLE]] (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA) | |||
[[ORDVAC]] (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA) | |||
[[SARA]] (SAAB, Sweden) | |||
[[SILLIAC]] (University of Sydney, Australia) | |||
[[SMIL]] (Lund University, Sweden) | |||
[[WEIZAC]] (Weizmann Institute, Israel) | |||
A proud mother, she maintains a good rapport with most of her children, the only exception being the Soviet BESM. | |||