The Wisconsin integrally synchronized computer -- A University research project

IN THE fall of 1950, the University of Wisconsin began research in the design and construction of an automatic electronic digital computer to add to its servomechanism, analogue, and digital computer program. The project was undertaken for two reasons: 1. to obtain an additional research tool to supplement existing computing facilities such as the International Business Machines equipment operated by the university's numerical analysis laboratory and the electrical engineering department's high-speed electronic differential analyzer; and 2. to provide training for both students and staff in the problems of computer design, construction, maintenance, and use.