Today in 1952, The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) computer, in development since the spring of 1946, was officially dedicated.
Michael Williams in A History of Computing Technology:
It was quite small by the standards of the day, measuring only 6 feet long, 8 feet high, and 2 feet wide… the performance of the machine set the design standard for the very fast parallel computers of the future, and when people speak of the von Neumann architecture of a modern computer they are really describing the parallel data path of the IAS machine rather than anything that von Neumann did earlier.