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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 1, 2024 · This film of EDSAC was made in 1951, and includes an introduction and voiceover by Maurice Wilkes from 1976. EDSAC ran its first successful program on 6th May 1949, making it the world's first fully functional stored-program computer. One of the world’s earliest computers was born 70 years ago at the Computer Lab.

  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. That machine was given the name EDSAC, and the EDSAC would go live before the EDVAC itself.

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  6. www.britannica.com › biography › Maurice-WilkinsMaurice Wilkins | DNA structure, X-ray crystallography, Nobel ...

    Apr 16, 2024 · Maurice Wilkins (born December 15, 1916, Pongaroa, New Zealand—died October 6, 2004, London, England) was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist whose X-ray diffraction studies of deoxyribonucleic acid proved crucial to the determination of DNA’s molecular structure by James D. Watson and Francis Crick.

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  7. gilpress.substack.com › p › first-practical-computerFirst Practical Computer - by Gil Press

    May 6, 2024 · Maurice Wilkes, who was the head of the team that designed and assembled the EDSAC at the University Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge University, wrote in his 1985 Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer about the origins of the EDSAC: In the middle of May 1946, I had a visit from L. J. Comrie who was just back from a trip to the United States.

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  9. edagraffiti.substack.com › p › debuggingDebugging - by Paul McLellan - EDAgraffiti

    Apr 22, 2024 · Apr 22, 2024. Share. Maurice Wilkes, who was the head of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory (what ever one else calls the computer science department) when I was an undergraduate. He also taught my Numerical Methods and Computer Networking courses. Yes, we studied numerical methods in CS in those days.

  10. www.slashgear.com › 1566508 › raspberry-pi-historyThe Evolution Of Raspberry Pi: From Prototype To Single-Board ...

    Apr 27, 2024 · This sense of challenged pride likely came from the university's history with the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), which Maurice Wilkes and colleagues built in the University ...

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