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Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010 [11]) 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.
Maurice Vincent Wilkes United Kingdom: 1913–2010 Information science 1993 Jack St. Clair Kilby United States: 1923–2005 Electronics 1994 Paul Christian Lauterbur United States: 1929–2007 Biotechnology and medical technology 1995 George William Gray United Kingdom: 1926–2013 Materials science and engineering 1996 Donald Ervin Knuth
Maurice Vincent Wilkes United Kingdom: 1913–2010 Building and Designing the First Practical Stored Program Computer and Pioneering Studies of Computer Architecture [39] 1996 Donald Ervin Knuth United States: born 1938
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In October 1946, work began under Maurice Wilkes on EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), which subsequently became the world's first fully operational and practical stored program computer when it ran its first program on 6 May 1949. [4] It inspired the world's first business computer, LEO.
Published in 1951, it was written by Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill of Cambridge University. The book was based on the authors' experiences constructing and using EDSAC, one of the first practical computers in the world.
From left, Berkley selectman candidates Maurice Butler and Jennifer Vincent take part in a Meet the Candidates night at the senior center on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.
Maurice Vincent Wilkes – microprogramming, EDSAC Yorick Wilks – computational linguistics , artificial intelligence James H. Wilkinson – numerical analysis