What is recorded here
This bronze commemorative plaque records: Near here in the Mathematical Laboratory on 6 May 1949 the EDSAC computer built by Maurice Wilkes and his team performed its first calculation
Maurice Wilkes led the development of EDSAC, one of the world's first practical stored-program computers, which revolutionized computing by enabling complex calculations and data processing tasks.
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