Illinois Featured Content

blog posts

• Illinois' early supercomputer that inspired HAL from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

  Apr 27, 2015 2:00 pm by etwilson@illinois.eduIllinois in the News
  • Share on Facebook
  • Tweet
  • Email

  

  Images

  • 

  Fusion (April 25) - Conceived at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the 50s and 60s, the room-sized behemoth was the most powerful number-crunching machine of its time.

  stats

  additional actions
  • Share on Facebook
  • Tweet
  • Email