Tom Kilburn was an English mathematician and computer scientist involved over his thirty year career in the development of five computers of great historical significance. With Freddie Williams he worked on the Williams-Kilburn tube and the Manchester Baby, the world's first electronic stored-program computer, at the University of Manchester. He went on to lead development of a succession of innovative Manchester computers, including the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercial computer, and the Atlas, one of the first time-sharing multiprocessing computers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Baby: "It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill." Geoff Tootill is not yet a live pioneer entity in this atlas.
Tom Kilburn built the Manchester Mark 1 at the University of Manchester as the direct successor to the Manchester Baby.
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Tom Kilburn was an English mathematician and computer scientist involved over his thirty year career in the development of five computers of great historical significance. With Freddie Williams he worked on the Williams-Kilburn tube and the Manchester Baby, the world's first electronic stored-program computer, at the University of Manchester. He went on to lead development of a succession of innovative Manchester computers, including the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercial computer, and the Atlas, one of the first time-sharing multiprocessing computers.
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11 August 1921
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17 January 2001
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