Computing Machine Laboratory

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The Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester in the north of England was established by Max Newman shortly after the end of World War II, around 1946.{{fact|date=March 2016}}

The Laboratory was funded through a grant from the Royal Society, which was approved in the summer of 1946.{{cite web|title=Max Newman and the Mark 1|url=http://www.computer50.org/mark1/newman.html|access-date=2010-01-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511182631/http://www.computer50.org/mark1/newman.html|archive-date=11 May 2008|url-status=dead}} He recruited the engineers Frederic Calland Williams and Thomas Kilburn where they built the world's first electronic stored-program digital computer, which came to be known as the Manchester Baby.{{cite web |title=The Modern History of Computing|url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/#MUC|access-date=2010-01-30}} Their prototype ran its first program on 21 June 1948.{{cite book |title=The essential Turing: seminal writings in computing, logic, philosophy ..|page=209|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x7mMr4twnloC&pg=PA209 |access-date=2010-01-27|isbn=9780191520280|last1=Copeland|first1=B. Jack|date=2004-09-09|publisher=Clarendon Press }}