Title: National Bureau of Standards Electronic Automatic Computer (SEAC)
Author: NIST

Date: 1950

Document Type: NBS


Notes:
Computer image processing began at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in 1957. The construction of the early National Bureau of Standards Electronic Automatic Computer (SEAC) computer made possible the experiments that led to image processing. SEAC, was the first electronic computer with an internally stored program in the United States Government. It was the first of three computers built at NBS