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The '''Computing Machine Laboratory''' at the [[Victoria University of Manchester|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}}<br />
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The Laboratory was funded through a grant from the [[Royal Society]], which was approved in the summer of 1946.<ref name=Royal>{{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}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=ModHist>{{cite web |title=The Modern History of Computing|url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/#MUC|access-date=2010-01-30}}</ref> Their prototype ran its first program on 21 June 1948.<ref name=EssTuring>{{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 }}</ref><br />
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