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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 ...
Jun 22, 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.
Dec 23, 2010 · A tribute to Maurice V. Wilkes, one of the most important figures in the development of practical computing in the UK. He led the EDSAC project, pioneered software development, microprogramming, cache memories and distributed systems.
Maurice V. Wilkes. United Kingdom – 1967. CITATION. Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory.
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.
Sir Maurice Wilkes played a leading role in the design of the Cambridge University EDSAC computer, one of the earliest stored program computers, in the late 1940s and in return for some funding for that project from J. Lyons & Co, allowed the Lyons team to use the EDSAC design as the basis for LEO I, cooperating with the LEO team and helping in ...
Jun 27, 2024 · 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).
