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Maurice Wilkes

British computer scientist (1913–2010)

  • Fame52.4
  • Momentum0.1
  • Wikipedia1.5K
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Lived 1913–2010, aged 97United Kingdom
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    41 languages
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  • Era
    1913–2010
    Aged 97
  • Awards
    24
    recognised works
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Updated 2026-06-19

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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