The Babbage project, however, provided the inspiration for the remarkable giant mechanical brains that have come into existence in recent years. The first direct descendent of the Babbage analytic engine is the great IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (the ASCC) completed at Harvard University in 1944 as a joint enterprise by the University and the International Business Machines Corporation under contract for the Navy Department. the machine is 51 feet long, 8 feet high, with two panels six feet long, and weighs about five tons.