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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 ...
May 1, 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.
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.
Nov 30, 2010 · Sir Maurice Wilkes, dubbed the 'father' of British computing for his work on some of the first machines, has died aged 97.
Dec 23, 2009 · Summary. 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).
Jun 18, 2012 · Wilkes went on to become an enormously important pioneer in computing: building the first practical stored program computer in the world, and helping to create many designs for computer architecture and programming methods that are still used to this day. Unlike Turing, Wilkes lived 97 years.
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.
