Back موريس ويلكس Arabic موريس ويلكس ARZ Moris Vinsent Uilks Azerbaijani موریس ویلکس AZB Морыс Вінсент Уілкс Byelorussian মরিস ভিনসেন্ট উইলকিস Bengali/Bangla Maurice Wilkes BS Maurice Vincent Wilkes Catalan Maurice Wilkes Czech Maurice V. Wilkes Danish
Sir Maurice Wilkes | |
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.jpg) 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 | Cache memory |
| Spouse |
Nina Twyman
(m. 1947; died 2008) |
| Children | one son, two daughters |
| Awards |
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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[3] |
| Doctoral students | |
| Website | www |
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010[11]) 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
edsac2was 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.
- ^ "Father of British computing Sir Maurice Wilkes dies". BBC News. 30 November 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2011.