Professor Maurice Vincent Wilkes
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(b.) - ?1913 June 13
Bio/Description
Fellow of Royal Society. Phd in Physics. Knighted in 2000.
Designed and Constructed EDSAC at Cambridge University as the first fully productive stored program electronic computer. Invented microprogram. First President of British Computer Society. Numerous Prizes and Honours.
Still active in research though well into his nineties.
A true hero of of the computer age.
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Date of Birth:
1913 June 13 -
Gender:
Male -
Noted For:
Design and development of EDSAC -
Category of Achievement:
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