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

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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. Learn more about Wilkes’s life and career.

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   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 development...

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   • The "father" of British computing, Sir Maurice Wilkes, has died at the age of 97. Sir Maurice was the designer and creator of Edsac, a computer that ran its first program in May 1949. The Cambridge machine was the first widely-useable stored program machine and was very influential on the nascent British computer industry.

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   • 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 ( EDSAC ), the first full-size stored-program computer, and invented microprogramming.

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   When was Maurice Wilkes knighted?

   • Wilkes was knighted in 2000. 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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   How did Maurice Wilkes discover CTSS?

   • "An Historical Connection between Time-Sharing and Virtual Circuits". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.14.9546. Maurice Wilkes discovered CTSS on a visit to MIT in about 1965, and returned to Cambridge to convince the rest of us that time-sharing was the way forward ^ a b Lee, J. A. N. "Maurice Vincent Wilkes". Computer Pioneers.

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   Maurice Wilkes and the origins of microprogramming: the historical setting; Subrata Dasgupta, University of Southwestern Louisiana; Book: Creativity in Invention and Design; Online publication: 23 December 2009; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511530135.004

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   Feb 1, 2011 · Maurice Wilkes: The Last Pioneer. Computer science has lost not only a great scientist, but an important link to the electronic computing revolution that took place in the 1940s. By Leah Hoffmann. Posted Feb 1 2011. Share. Download PDF. Print. Join the Discussion. View in the ACM Digital Library. Article. Author. Footnotes. Figures.

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9. www.bbc.co.uk › news › technology-11875821Father of British computing Sir Maurice Wilkes dies - BBC News

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   Nov 30, 2010 · 30 November 2010. Sir Maurice Wilkes pioneered the practical use of computers in Britain. The "father" of British computing, Sir Maurice Wilkes, has died at the age of 97. Sir Maurice was...

10. www.computerhistory.org › profile › sir-maurice-v-wilkesSir Maurice V. Wilkes - CHM

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    Feb 5, 2024 · Maurice V. Wilkes was born in Dudley, England, in 1913. He received a PhD in physics (1936) from the University of Cambridge. Wilkes began experimental research on the atmosphere, complex calculations that led him to an interest in computing methods. In 1945, he became the first head of the computer laboratory at Cambridge and the following ...