Maurice Wilkes

Sir
Maurice Wilkes
FRS FREng
Sir Maurice Wilkes FRS FREng
	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	King Edward VI College, Stourbridge
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Known for	EDSAC; Microprogramming; Cache memory
Spouse	Nina Twyman (m. 1947; died 2008)
Children	one son, two daughters
Awards	Turing Award (1967); Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (1973); Faraday Medal (1981); Harold Pender Award (1982); Mountbatten Medal (1997);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	University of Cambridge; Cavendish Laboratory; Telecommunications Research Establishment; Mathematical Lab; British Computer Society; Digital Equipment Corporation; Hewlett-Packard; AT & T; Olivetti;
Thesis	The reflexion of very long wireless waves from the ionosphere (1939)
Doctoral advisor	John Ashworth Ratcliffe
Doctoral students	Michael Kay; Peter Wegner; David Wheeler;
Website	www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/mvw1

Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FRS FREng^[11] (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010)^[12] 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.

^ Wilkes, M. V. (1996). "Computers then and now---part 2". Proceedings of the 1996 ACM 24th annual conference on Computer science – CSC '96. pp. 115–119. doi:10.1145/228329.228342. ISBN 978-0-89791-828-2. S2CID 5235054.
^ Maurice Wilkes author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
^ Maurice Wilkes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Kay, Michael Howard (1976). Data independence in database management systems (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.461558.
^ Wegner, Peter (1968). Programming Languages, Information Structures, and Machine Organization (PhD thesis). University College London.
^ Wheeler, David John (1951). Automatic Computing With EDSAC. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
^ Wilkes, M. V. (1975). "Early computer developments at Cambridge: The EDSAC". Radio and Electronic Engineer. 45 (7): 332. doi:10.1049/ree.1975.0063.
^ Wilkes, Maurice (1951). "The EDSAC Computer". Proceedings of the Review of Electronic Digital Computers: 79. doi:10.1109/AFIPS.1951.13.
^ Cite error: The named reference edsac2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Wilkes, M. V. (1969). "The Growth of Interest in Microprogramming: A Literature Survey". ACM Computing Surveys. 1 (3): 139–145. doi:10.1145/356551.356553. S2CID 10673679.
^ Campbell-Kelly, Martin (2014). "Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes 26 June 1913 -- 29 November 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 60: 433–454. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2013.0020. S2CID 60934857.
^ "Father of British computing Sir Maurice Wilkes dies". BBC News. 30 November 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2011.

[1] Wilkes, M. V. (1996). "Computers then and now---part 2". Proceedings of the 1996 ACM 24th annual conference on Computer science – CSC '96. pp. 115–119. doi:10.1145/228329.228342. ISBN 978-0-89791-828-2. S2CID 5235054.

[acm-2] Maurice Wilkes author profile page at the ACM Digital Library

[mathgene-3] Maurice Wilkes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

[kayphd-4] Kay, Michael Howard (1976). Data independence in database management systems (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.461558.

[wegnerphd-5] Wegner, Peter (1968). Programming Languages, Information Structures, and Machine Organization (PhD thesis). University College London.

[wheelerphd-6] Wheeler, David John (1951). Automatic Computing With EDSAC. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.

[edsacagain-7] Wilkes, M. V. (1975). "Early computer developments at Cambridge: The EDSAC". Radio and Electronic Engineer. 45 (7): 332. doi:10.1049/ree.1975.0063.

[edsac-8] Wilkes, Maurice (1951). "The EDSAC Computer". Proceedings of the Review of Electronic Digital Computers: 79. doi:10.1109/AFIPS.1951.13.

[edsac2-9] Cite error: The named reference edsac2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[microprogram-10] Wilkes, M. V. (1969). "The Growth of Interest in Microprogramming: A Literature Survey". ACM Computing Surveys. 1 (3): 139–145. doi:10.1145/356551.356553. S2CID 10673679.

[frs-11] Campbell-Kelly, Martin (2014). "Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes 26 June 1913 -- 29 November 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 60: 433–454. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2013.0020. S2CID 60934857.

[bbc-12] "Father of British computing Sir Maurice Wilkes dies". BBC News. 30 November 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2011.

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Sir Maurice Wilkes FRS FREng
Maurice Wilkes in 1980
Born	John Maurice Vincent Wilkes (1913-06-26)26 June 1913 Dudley, Worcestershire, England
Died	29 November 2010(2010-11-29) (aged 97) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Education	King Edward VI College, Stourbridge
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Known for	EDSAC^[7]^[8]^[9] Microprogramming^[10] Cache memory
Spouse	Nina Twyman (m. 1947; died 2008)
Children	one son, two daughters
Awards	Turing Award (1967)^[1] Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (1973) Faraday Medal (1981) Harold Pender Award (1982) Mountbatten Medal (1997)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory Telecommunications Research Establishment Mathematical Lab British Computer Society Digital Equipment Corporation Hewlett-Packard AT & T^[2] Olivetti
Thesis	The reflexion of very long wireless waves from the ionosphere (1939)
Doctoral advisor	John Ashworth Ratcliffe^[3]
Doctoral students	Michael Kay^[4] Peter Wegner^[5] David Wheeler^[6]

Website	www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/mvw1

Maurice Wilkes

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