Harry Huskey

Photographic print, black and white portrait of Harry Huskey. Harry Huskey arrived in the UK from the US in 1947 to spend a year working at the National Physical Laboratory. He proposed a ‘pilot’ version of Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), a general purpose digital automatic electronic stored-program computer. Working alongside Jim Wilkinson and Donald Davies, Harry Huskey was heavily involved in the construction of the Pilot Model ACE.