Xia Li Computer Laboratory

The Xia Li Computer Laboratory (informally known as the Computer Lab) was a facility that was run and operated by Tritian which researched and developed early computers and calculators.

History
The building which the Xia Li Computer Laboratory operated out of had been owned and used by Tritian since 1907, when it was purchased by the company as an office center about five blocks away from their main campus in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York.

The building was converted into a research laboratory in 1910, where select personnel including founders James Robertson, Edmond Dowd, and Li Xia conducted research on applications of computing technology. Li's murder the following year prompted the company to officially christen the building as the Xia Li Computer Laboratory, using the western naming convention of given name before surname, which she was most often known as.

Edmond Dowd was the first official Coordinator of the facility, a position in which he served until 1925, when he became Vice President of the company, and was replaced by Alex Filipkowski a computer scientist who had been recruited to the facility by Dowd in 1915.