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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.
A diode matrix is a two-dimensional grid of wires: each "intersection" wherein one-row crosses over another has either a diode connecting them, or the wires are isolated from each other. It is one of the popular techniques for implementing a read-only memory. A diode matrix is used as the control store or microprogram in many
The award is named after Maurice Wilkes, a computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing such as microprogramming. The award is presented at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture. Prior recipients include: 1998 – Wen-mei Hwu; 1999 – Gurindar S. Sohi; 2000 – William J. Dally; 2001 – Anant Agarwal
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[13] In April 2002, Pittsburgh City Council approved the lease of the building and it is now part of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. [14] It was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2001, [2] and the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on July 29, 2005. [1]
In 1951, Maurice Wilkes [15] enhanced this concept by adding conditional execution, a concept akin to a conditional in computer software. His initial implementation consisted of a pair of matrices: the first one generated signals in the manner of the Whirlwind control store, while the second matrix selected which row of signals (the ...
11 Stanwix Street was completed on November 24, 1969, [1] with twenty-three floors. It was originally built and named for the Westinghouse Corporation; in 1999, that company went through a restructuring and moved its headquarters to its longtime research park in the suburb of Monroeville, before expansions in their operations necessitated a move to a larger suburban complex in Cranberry Township.
It was the first book to describe a number of important concepts in programming, including: the first account of a library of reusable code [2]; the first API [4]; the first explanation of using a memory dump for debugging a program, which the book called a "post-mortem routine" [2]