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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 (born June 26, 1913, Dudley, Worcestershire, England—died November 29, 2010, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was a British computer science pioneer who helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator , the first full-size stored-program computer, and invented microprogramming.
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CTSS was described in a paper presented at the 1962 Spring Joint Computer Conference, and greatly influenced the design of other early time-sharing systems. Maurice Wilkes witnessed CTSS and the design of the Titan Supervisor was inspired by that. Dennis Ritchie wrote in 1977 that UNIX could be seen as a "modern implementation" of CTSS.
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Maurice Vincent Wilkes. 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.
Oct 7, 2004 · He was 88. The discovery of DNA’s double helix structure -- considered one of the towering achievements of the 20th century and perhaps all of scientific history -- is key to understanding the...
Maurice Wilkes discovered CTSS on a visit to MIT in about 1965, and re-turned to Cambridge to convince the rest of us that time-sharing was the way forward. This didn’t take much doing, although to add terminals and interactive working to a partly completed job system was something of a challenge.
