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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Manchester Baby (section Williams–Kilburn tube)
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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Williams tube (redirect from Williams-Kilburn Tube)
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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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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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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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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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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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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