COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Maurice Wilkes

1913 - 2010

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Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Wilkes is the 38th most popular computer scientist (down from 36th in 2019), the 1,509th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,447th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Maurice Wilkes ranks 38 out of 245. Before him are Richard E. Stearns, Sergey Brin, Hal Finney, Guido van Rossum, Tony Hoare, and Ken Kutaragi. After him are Charles Bachman, Peter Naur, Ole-Johan Dahl, Ivan Sutherland, Luigi Federico Menabrea, and Steve Russell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Maurice Wilkes ranks 97. Before him are Mark Felt, Loretta Young, Pinetop Perkins, Alexander Marinesko, Pierre Werner, and Marika Rökk. After him are Eddie Constantine, Tokutaro Ukon, Johannes Steinhoff, Álvaro Cunhal, Wolfgang Lüth, and Heinz Kohut. Among people deceased in 2010, Maurice Wilkes ranks 75. Before him are Guido de Marco, Adriaan Blaauw, Mario Monicelli, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Israel Tal, and Peter Graves. After him are Ariel Ramírez, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Malcolm McLaren, Antony Flew, Satoshi Kon, and Pierre Hadot.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Maurice Wilkes ranks 1,509 out of 8,785. Before him are Sam Taylor-Johnson (1967), John Horton Conway (1937), John Blow (1649), Jack W. Szostak (1952), Godwin, Earl of Wessex (1001), and Helen McCrory (1968). After him are John Wilkins (1614), Arnold Jackson (1891), Gildas (500), Steve McQueen (1969), Vita Sackville-West (1892), and Peter Green (1946).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Maurice Wilkes ranks 5. Before him are Alan Turing (1912), Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), and Edgar F. Codd (1923). After him are Paul Graham (1964), James H. Wilkinson (1919), Martin Fowler (1963), Robin Milner (1934), Alan Cox (1968), Stephen Wolfram (1959), and Karen Spärck Jones (1935).

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