Maurice Wilkes
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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...
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Maurice Wilkes (right) with the Meccano differential analyser in the Cambridge University Mathematics Laboratory, c. 1937. A. F. Devonshire (left) co-authored a number of papers on melting and disorder with the Laboratory's first director, John Lennard-Jones. The winner of the 1937 Mayhew Prize, J. Corner, is operating the input table (centre).
Maurice Wilkes inspecting the mercury delay line of the EDSAC in constructionAwards 24
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Jonas GardellAlso won honorary doctor of Linköping University
Nicholas HighamAlso won Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Pennsylvania
Hubert BurdaAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Munich
Manfred EigenAlso won Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich
Gene AmdahlAlso won Harry H. Goode Memorial AwardAbout this person
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.
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