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    Tom Kilburn CBE FRS (11 August 1921 – 17 January 2001) was an English mathematician and computer scientist. Over his 30-year career, he was involved in...
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    It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948. The Baby...
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    The Williams tube, or the Williams–Kilburn tube named after inventors Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn, is an early form of computer memory. It was the...
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  • Engineering Department of the University of Manchester. There, with Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, he built the first electronic stored-program digital...
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    Ernest Rutherford first split the atom in 1917; Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill developed the world's first stored-program computer...
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    at the University of Manchester in England by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948. It was...
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  • as the Ferranti Mark 1. The chief designers, Frederic C. Williams and Tom Kilburn, concluded from their experiences with the Mark 1 that computers would...
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    first programme error free. Its chief designers are Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn. 1951 The concept of microprogramming is developed by Maurice Wilkes...
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    small team at the University of Manchester, under the leadership of Tom Kilburn. They included the world's first stored-program computer, the world's...
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    "Why Williams-Kilburn Tube is a Better Name for the Williams Tube". Computer 50. Archived from the original on 2013-06-06. Kilburn, Tom (1990), "From...
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