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Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FRS FREng (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers, and who invented microprogramming, a method for using stored-program logic to operate the control unit ...
May 1, 2024 · Maurice Wilkes, British computer science pioneer who helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), the first full-size stored-program computer, and invented microprogramming. He won the A.M. Turing Award in 1967. Learn more about Wilkes’s life and career.
Short Annotated. Bibliography. ACM Turing Award. Lecture. Research. Subjects. Additional. Materials. Maurice Vincent Wilkes was born 26 June1913 in Dudley, in the county of Staffordshire in the English Midlands. His father was a financial officer for the estate of the Earl of Dudley which had extensive mining interests. His mother was a housewife.
Nov 30, 2010 · Scientist who built the first practical digital computer. Jack Schofield. Tue 30 Nov 2010 13.00 EST. Sir Maurice Wilkes, who has died aged 97, was the most important figure in the...
Biography. Maurice V. Wilkes was born in Worcestershire, England in 1913. He received the B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1934 and 1937, respectively, from Cambridge University. As a graduate student in the Cavendish Laboratory he did experimental research on the propagation of radio waves in the ionosphere. This led to an interest in tidal motion in ...
Sir Maurice V. Wilkes, in full Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes, (born June 26, 1913, Dudley, Worcestershire, Eng.—died Nov. 29, 2010, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), British computer science pioneer.
Born June 26, 1913, Dudley, Worcestshire, England, director of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory throughout the whole development of stored program computers starting with EDSAC; inventor of labels, macros, and microprogramming; with David Wheeler and Stanley Gill, the inventor of a programming system based on subroutines.
