ILLIAC III
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ILLIAC III
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The ILLIAC III was a fine-grained SIMD pattern recognition computer built by the University of Illinois in 1966. This ILLIAC's initial task was image processing of bubble chamber experiments used to detect nuclear particles. Later it was used on biological images. The machine was destroyed in a fire, caused by a Variac shorting on one of the wooden-top benches, in 1968. It was rebuilt in the early 1970s, and the core parallel-processing element of the machine, the Pattern Articulation Unit, was
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