American and British Early Electronic Computer Pioneers

This child group of Early Computing Machines and Historical Pioneers gathers the American and British engineers, mathematicians and physicists who designed, built or led the first generation of electronic digital computers in the 1940s and 1950s, including ENIAC, EDVAC, EDSAC, Colossus, the Manchester Baby and the early IBM scientific machines, along with the operators and programmers such as the ENIAC women who made those machines run. Their shared work is the initial electronic realization of the computer in the United States and the United Kingdom, the two countries where that first wave of building was concentrated, as distinct from the parallel efforts pursued in other countries or the later specializations of architecture, processor design and semiconductor engineering that grew out of this founding work.