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Maurice Wilkes
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes 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. In 1967 he won the ACM Turing Award. At the time of his deat…
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science · British computer scientist (1913–2010) · computer scientist · engineer · physicist · university teacher · mathematician · also Maurice Wilkes, Maurice Vincent Wilkes, Maurice V. Wilkes, Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes, Wilkes
Born 26 June 1913 · Died 29 November 2010 · Q62857
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2010· 1 entry
2002· 1 entry
Wilkes moved back to the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, as an emeritus professor
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2001· 1 entry
Was inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his contributions to computer technology, including early machine design, microprogramming, and the Cambridge Ring network
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (2000).
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos” in Physical Review Letters — cited 4,054 times.
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1997· 3 entries
Won IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1997).
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Won Mountbatten Medal (1997).
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And in 2000 presented the inaugural Pinkerton Lecture
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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Was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
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1993· 1 entry
Wilkes was presented, by Cambridge University, with an honorary Doctor of Science degree
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (1992).
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1987· 1 entry
Was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath
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1986· 1 entry
Returned to England and became a member of Olivetti's Research Strategy Board
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Harold Pender Award (1982).
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1981· 2 entries
Won Faraday Medal (1981).
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Awarded W. Wallace McDowell Award (1981).
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded Eckert–Mauchly Award (1980).
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Retired from his professorships and post as the head of the Computer Laboratory and joined the central engineering staff of Digital Equipment Corporation in Maynard, Massachusetts, US
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1974· 1 entry
Wilkes encountered a Swiss data network (at Hasler AG) that used a ring topology to allocate time on the network
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (1973).
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1972· 1 entry
Wilkes was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by Newcastle University
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1968).
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Turing Award for Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (1967).
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With the following citation: "Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program
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1957· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1957–1960).
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1956· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1956).
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1951· 3 entries
Then expanded and published in IEEE Spectrum in 1955
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Developed the concept of microprogramming from the realisation that the central processing unit of a computer could be controlled by a miniature, highly specialised computer program in high-speed ROM
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In which program libraries were effectively introduced
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1950· 1 entry
Along with David Wheeler, Wilkes used EDSAC to solve a differential equation relating to gene frequencies in a paper by Ronald Fisher
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1949· 1 entry
The EDSAC used a mercury delay-line memory
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1945· 1 entry
Wilkes was appointed as the second director of the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory (later known as the Computer Laboratory)
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1936· 2 entries
Studied at University of Cambridge, Doctor of Philosophy (1935–1936).
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Completed his PhD in physics on the subject of radio propagation of very long radio waves in the ionosphere
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1934· 1 entry
Studied at St John's College (1931–1934).
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1931· 1 entry
Studied at King Edward VI College, Stourbridge (1931).
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-06-26.
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