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Co-inventor of the first stored-program computer, Kilburn was a major player in the team which built the Manchester University "Baby" in 1948. He also co-invented with Freddie Williams the cathode ray storage device, which was adopted by IBM for its first computers.
Kilburn was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1965. He was also a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, and received numerous other awards and prizes throughout his career.
