Wilkes, M. V.
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Name (Hebrew)
וילקס, מוריס וינסנט
Name (Latin)
Wilkes, M. V.
Other forms of name
Uilks, M
Wilkes, Maurice V. (Maurice Vincent)
Wilkes, Maurice Vincent
Wilkes, Maurice Vincent, 1913-
Date of birth
1913-06-26
Date of death
2010-11-29
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Computer science
Occupation
College teachers
Computer scientists
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- His Oscillations of the earth's atmosphere, 1949.
- His The preparation of programs for an electronic digital computer, 1982:
- Wikipedia WWW site, Nov. 30, 2010
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Wikipedia description:
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) 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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