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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 ...

   • Born: John Maurice Vincent Wilkes, 26 June 1913, Dudley, Worcestershire, England
   • Education: King Edward VI College, Stourbridge

   • Doctoral advisor: John Ashworth Ratcliffe

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   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.

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   Nov 30, 2010 · Sir Maurice Wilkes, who has died aged 97, was the most important figure in the development of practical computing in the UK. Not only did he lead the development of EDSAC, the first...

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   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Maurice Wilkes . 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.

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   • Maurice Wilkes (born June 26, 1913, Dudley, Worcestershire, England—died November 29, 2010, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) British computer science pioneer who helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator ( EDSAC ), the first full-size stored-program computer, and invented microprogramming.

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   • The Maurice Wilkes Award, awarded annually for an outstanding contribution to computer architecture made by a young computer scientist or engineer, is named after him. In 1986, he returned to England and became a member of Olivetti 's Research Strategy Board. In 1987, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath.

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   • Wilkes was appointed university demonstrator there and was the Mathematical Laboratory’s only staff member. During World War II Wilkes left Cambridge to work elsewhere on the development of radar and a bomb-aiming system for aircraft. He returned to the Mathematical Laboratory as director in 1945.

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   Summary. In May 1949, the EDSAC computer, designed and constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his co-workers at the Cambridge University Mathematical Laboratory successfully performed its first, fully automatic computation (Wilkes, 1956, p. 39; 1985, p. 142; Wilkes and Renwick 1949).

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   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.

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   Feb 1, 2011 · With his death on November 29, 2010, at the age of 97, computer science lost not only a great scientist, but an important link to the electronic computing revolution that took place in the 1940s. Wilkes was born on June 26, 1913 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England. He initially struggled in school due to recurring bouts of asthma.

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    Dec 1, 2010 · In 1946 Maurice Wilkes was a junior academic and acting director of the Cambridge University Mathematical Laboratory – a tiny outfit with a handful of pre-war calculating machines. One day...