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= Eileen McKee = Eileen Emily Caroline McKee (26 January 1927 - 13 December 2020)

Eileen McKee (NC 1944,

Maths)

EDSAC1

Project

Eileen McKee went up to Newnham, where she read Mathematics, towards the end of

WW2. Three of her four siblings also took degrees at Cambridge. She stayed in

Cambridge after graduation and was a member of the team developing EDSAC1, one

of the world’s first programmable computers. She was obviously proud of her role in

this project as she kept a number of photos from the time in her personal papers. One

shows the team involved in the EDSAC1 project: the high proportion of women therein

is noteworthy. Eileen died in December last year.