maniac

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It was then that she began working with Fermi, Pasta and Ulam in a theoretical group that had been given use of the MANIAC, and she became instrumental in a groundbreaking experiment.

From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2021

Tsingou originally came to work at Los Alamos as a mathematician, but when the opportunity arose, she became one of only a few people at the time who learned to program the MANIAC.

From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2021

Tsingou wrote an algorithm, programmed the MANIAC, and ran the simulation over and over, along the way making adjustments, debugging and altering input to compare results.

From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2021

In 1952, at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, theoretical physicists Enrico Fermi, John Pasta and Stanislaw Ulam brainstormed ways to use the MANIAC, one of the world’s first supercomputers, to solve scientific problems.

From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2021

Electronic calculators are invariably given acronymic names such as BINAC, SEAC, and MANIAC, and nine out of ten of them are of the digital type.

From The Romantic Analogue by Skupeldyckle, W.W.