# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-wilkes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:00:58.513Z

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name: "Maurice Wilkes"
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description: "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."
tagline: "British computer scientist (1913–2010)"
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birthDate: "1913-06-26"
deathDate: "2010-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump