Maurice Wilkes
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Maurice V. Wilkes was a British computer scientist; in 1951, Director of the Mathematical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. Among his accomplishments were leading the creation of EDSAC (the first usable stored-program computer), and popularizing the use of microcode.
He has written many articles and books, among them:
- The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, 1951 (with David J. Wheeler and Stanley Gill) - the first book ever published about programming
- Chapter 7, 'Calculating Machine Development at Cambridge', in Faster Than Thought, 1953
- Chapter 2, 'The EDSAC', in Automatic Digital Computation, 1954
Further reading
- Maurice V. Wilkes, Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1985 - autobiography
- Maurice V. Wilkes, Computing Perspectives, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 1995 - essays on various topics
External links
- Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes - biographical obituary
- Maurice Vincent Wilkes - brief biography at the IEEE Computer Society
