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Tom Kilburn, co-inventor of the first storage mechanism for a computer program, died Jan. 17 in Trafford, England. He was 79. Kilburn also wrote the first program for the storage device. As a British government engineer in the 1940s, he toiled with mentor Freddy Williams on one of the big challenges for the nascent field of computing: how to store a program. By 1947, their computer "Baby" could hold a then-useful 256 bytes, and by 1948 they were working with the legendary Alan Turing on a commercial machine which became the Ferranti Mark I. Later in life, Kilburn became the first professor of computer science at Britain's Manchester University.
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