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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.
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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The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer. [1] Inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, the machine was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England.
Often vacuum-tube computers made extensive use of solid-state ("crystal") diodes to perform AND and OR logic functions, and only used vacuum tubes to amplify signals between stages or to construct elements such as flip-flops, counters, and registers. The solid-state diodes reduced the size and power consumption of the overall machine.
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 other contender for being the first recognizably modern digital stored-program computer [119] was the EDSAC, [120] designed and constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England at the University of Cambridge in 1949.
Maurice Wilkes (1913–2010) was a computer scientist at the University of Cambridge. Maurice Wilkes may also refer to: Maurice Wilks (1904–1963), automotive and aeronautical engineer; Maurice Canning Wilks (1910–1984), Irish landscape painter