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Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (* 26. Juni 1913 in Dudley; † 29. November 2010 in Cambridge [1]) war ein britischer Informatiker und Physiker. 1967 erhielt er den Turing Award, 1992 den Kyoto-Preis .
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FRS FREng [11] (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) [12] 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...
- John Maurice Vincent Wilkes, 26 June 1913, Dudley, Worcestershire, England
- King Edward VI College, Stourbridge
29. Nov. 2010 · Maurice V. Wilkes. United Kingdom – 1967. CITATION. Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory.
1. Mai 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. He won the A.M. Turing Award in 1967. Learn more about Wilkes’s life and career.
Maurice V. Wilkes was born in England in 1913. He went up to Cambridge University in 1931 and studied mathematical physics and other subjects. In 1934 he became a graduate student in the Cavendish Laboratory doing experimental research on the propagation of radio waves in the ionosphere.
Sir Maurice V. Wilkes, in full Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes, (born June 26, 1913, Dudley, Worcestershire, Eng.—died Nov. 29, 2010, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), British computer science pioneer. He helped build the first full-size stored-program computer (EDSAC, 1949), invented microprogramming (1951), cowrote the first book on computer ...
5. Feb. 2024 · Maurice V. Wilkes was born in Dudley, England, in 1913. He received a PhD in physics (1936) from the University of Cambridge. Wilkes began experimental research on the atmosphere, complex calculations that led him to an interest in computing methods. In 1945, he became the first head of the computer laboratory at Cambridge and the ...
