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Categories: Articles with short description, Kyoto laureates in Advanced Technology, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellows of the British Computer Society, Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
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Maurice Wilkes  M. V. Wilkes  Maurice V. Wilkes  Maurice Vincent Wilkes  Moris Wilkes
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Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, 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. Wikipedia
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Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, 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. Wikipedia
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homo
ACADEMIC DEGREE
Doctor of Philosophy
AWARD RECEIVED
knight bachelor
Harold Pender Award
W. Wallace McDowell Award
IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Faraday Medal
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COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
J. A. Ratcliffe
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Peter Wegner
Beatrice Worsley
Michael Howard Kay
David Wheeler
David Hartley
EDUCATED AT
Cambridge University
King Edward VI College, Stourbridge
St John's College, Cambridge
FAMILY NAME
Wilkes
FIELD OF WORK
computer science
GIVEN NAME
Maurice
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
Association for Computing Machinery
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain
NOTABLE WORK
EDSAC
OCCUPATION
engineer
computer scientist
mathematician
physicist
professeur des universités
PLACE OF BIRTH
Dudley
PLACE OF DEATH
Cambridge
SEX OR GENDER
male
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Maurice Wilkes
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Maurice Wilkes
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M. V. Wilkes, Maurice V. Wilkes, Maurice Vincent Wilkes, Moris Wilkes
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Maurice V. Wilkes, Maurice Vincent Wilkes, Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes

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