# Maurice Wilkes

> Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes 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 of a central processing unit's circuits. In 1967 he won the ACM Turing Award. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge.

*British computer scientist (1913–2010)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/maurice-wilkes

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1913-06-26
- **Died:** 2010-11-29
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 52.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.1 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 22.3 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mvw1/

## Sources
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