GEORGE was an early computer built in 1957 by Argonne National Laboratory, was based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann. Argonne National Laboratory is one of the United States Department of Energy 's oldest and largest science and engineering research national laboratories and is The IAS machine was the first electronic digital Computer built by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS, Princeton NJ, USA. (The name "GEORGE" is apparently not an acronym. ) As with almost all computers of its era, it was a one of a kind machine that could not exchange programs with other computers (even other IAS machines). The IAS machine was the first electronic digital Computer built by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS, Princeton NJ, USA.