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Alick Glennie made the Autocode programming language, considered the first compiled language, for a computer at this institution. Early versions of Ethernet all used an encoding named for this institution that transitions on each bit, where zeros are represented by a high-to-low transition and ones by a low-to-high transition. An early form of RAM called the Williams tube was invented at this institution, which was used by a team led by Tom Kilburn to build a computer called the “[this place] Baby”. Ferranti collaborated with this institution to commercially release one of their computers as the Ferranti Mark 1. It’s not Cambridge, (15[1])but after World War II, (*) Alan Turing joined the computing laboratory at this university, where (-5[1])he spent the last several years of his life. For 10 points, give this university in a namesake British city that produced (-5[1])a lot of cotton during the Industrial Revolution. ■END■ (10[2]0[4])

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