Maurice Wilkes
(1913-2010)
British computer scientist
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Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FRS FREng (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers and 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 of the University of Cambridge.
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26 June 1913 Dudley, Staffordshire, England, UK
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29 November 2010 (aged 97) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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