Maurice Wilkes

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, Automatic Digital Computers, Wiley & Sons, New York, Methuen, London, 1957 - mostly general content, but some coverage of specific machines, from Babbage on
• 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