IAS
| IAS Machine | |
| |
| Character Information | |
|---|---|
| Common Names | IAS Machine |
| Other Names | Institute for Advanced Study Machine |
| Faction | Mainframe Guild |
| Lineage | IAS Machine/Von Neumann Architecture |
| Rival(s) | Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine |
| Appearance | |
| Height | 5' range |
| Hair Color | Silver |
| Eye Color | Gold |
| Weapon(s) | n/a |
| Design | |
| First Appearance | Jan 2010[1] |
| Technical Information | |
| System Personified | IAS Machine |
| Developer(s) | Institute for Advanced Study, John Von Neumann |
| Debut | Circa 1952 |
| Latest release | n/a |
Technical Details
Built over a period of 6 years (1945 - 1951), the IAS Machine was an early electronic computer and the originator of the widely-implemented Von Neumann Architecture.
Character Details
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'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, USA)
- 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)
- Rice R1[2]
- MERLIN
- OSAGE[3]
- FACOM 201[4]
- NAREC[5] (granddaughter)
A proud mother, she maintains a good rapport with most of her children, the only exception being the Soviet BESM.