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At the end of 1945 or very early in 1946 Hartree briefed Maurice Wilkes of the University of Cambridge on the developments in computing in the USA which he had seen.

Wilkes, then received an invitation from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering ( the builders of ENIAC ) to attend a course on electronic computers.

Before leaving for this, Hartree was able to brief him more fully on ENIAC.

It was on the boat home that Wilkes planned the original design of EDSAC, which was to become operational in May 1949.

Hartree worked closely with Wilkes in developing use of the machine for a wide range of problems and, most importantly, showed users from a number of areas in the university how they could use it in their research work.