1913
Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist and physicist (died 2010)
Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist and physicist (died 2010)
Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist and physicist (died 2010)
Maurice Wilkes
British computer scientist (1913–2010)
- Born
- 1913
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.