TheComputing Machine Laboratory at theUniversity of Manchester in the north ofEngland was established byMax Newman shortly after the end ofWorld War II, around 1946.[citation needed]
The Laboratory was funded through a grant from theRoyal Society, which was approved in the summer of 1946.[1] He recruited the engineersFrederic Calland Williams andThomas Kilburn where they built the world's first electronic stored-program digital computer, which came to be known as theManchester Baby.[2] Their prototype ran its first program on 21 June 1948.[3]
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