Maurice Wilkes
Sir Maurice Wilkes | |
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Maurice Wilkes in 1980 | |
| Born | John Maurice Vincent Wilkes 26 June 1913 Dudley, Worcestershire, England |
| Died | 29 November 2010 (aged 97) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Education | St John's College, Cambridge (BA, 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 |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | The reflexion of very long wireless waves from the ionosphere (1939) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Ashworth Ratcliffe |
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| Website | www |
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.