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  1. www.britannica.com › biography › Maurice-WilkesMaurice Wilkes | Biography, Invention, EDSAC, & Facts ...

    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.

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  3. www.cst.cam.ac.uk › news › 70-years-first-computer70 years since the first computer designed for practical ...

    May 20, 2024 · EDSAC 2 was built by Maurice Wilkes and the same team who had created the original EDSAC. A significant number of researchers benefitted from the revolutionary computing power of EDSAC which they were able to take advantage of at Cambridge.

  4. www.computingatschool.org.uk › news-and-blogs › 202475 years old TODAY – the modern computer

    May 6, 2024 · Maurice Wilkes, based at Cambridge University in the UK, already had a keen interest in the field of automated computing. He learned about the ideas proposed for the EDVAC and initiated a project to build a machine along similar lines in the UK.

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  6. www.youtube.com › watchMaurice Wilkes: The Engineering Genius Who Revolutionized ...

    May 9, 2024 · Maurice Wilkes: The Engineering Genius Who Revolutionized Technology. Land Rover's founders, Maurice Wilks and his brother Spencer, were reportedly influenced by the rugged design and...

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  7. www.hostingadvice.com › how-to › what-is-cachingWhat Is Caching? How It Works, Types, and Best Practices

    22 hours ago · Caching in cloud computing has a pretty interesting history. In 1965, British computer scientist Maurice Wilkes introduced this technology, but it had a rather controversial name: “slave memory.” Two years later, an IBM Systems Journal editor used the word “cache” to describe the new memory in IBM’s Model 85 computer. The phrase ...

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  9. thewilkesrecord.com › wilkesboro-man-charged-afterWilkesboro man charged in shooting - thewilkesrecord.com

    1 day ago · Tue, May 28, 2024. From Wilkes Record Staff Reports. After allegedly shooting a man in the leg, a Wilkesboro man was charged with assault with intent to kill early Sunday morning. Wilkes County Sheriff's Office Major Logan Kerr, in a press release sent to The Wilkes Record, stated that Anthony Maurice Dandy, age 39, was charged with assault ...

  10. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ronald_FisherRonald Fisher - Wikipedia

    2 days ago · In 1950, Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler used the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator to solve a differential equation relating to gene frequencies in a paper by Ronald Fisher. This represents the first use of a computer for a problem in the field of biology.

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