The Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester in the north of England was established by Max Newman shortly after the end of World War II, around 1946.
The Laboratory was funded through a grant from the Royal Society, which was approved in the summer of 1946. He recruited the engineers Frederic Calland Williams and Thomas Kilburn where they built the world's first electronic stored-program digital computer, which came to be known as the Manchester Baby. Their prototype ran its first program on 21 June 1948.
References
- "Max Newman and the Mark 1". Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
- "The Modern History of Computing". Retrieved 30 January 2010.
- Copeland, B. Jack (9 September 2004). The essential Turing: seminal writings in computing, logic, philosophy . Clarendon Press. p. 209. ISBN 9780191520280. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
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