Maurice Wilkes
British computer scientist (1913–2010) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 unit of a central processing unit's circuits. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge.
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Born | John Maurice Vincent Wilkes (1913-06-26)26 June 1913 Dudley, Worcestershire, England |
Died | 29 November 2010(2010-11-29) (aged 97) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
Education | King Edward VI College, Stourbridge |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (MA, PhD) |
Known for | Cache memory |
Spouse |
Nina Twyman
(m. 1947; died 2008) |
Children | one son, two daughters |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
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Thesis | The reflexion of very long wireless waves from the ionosphere (1939) |
Doctoral advisor | John Ashworth Ratcliffe[7] |
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Website | www |
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