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Maurice Wilkes
KindPerson
Born1913
Died2010
StatusDead
Fieldcomputing
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Built EDSAC (1949), the first practical stored-program computer, and invented microprogramming.

Created EDSAC

Built EDSAC (1949) — the first practical stored-program computer — at Cambridge, and invented microprogramming (1951), the technique every CPU's control logic used for decades.\n\nWrote the first programming textbook (Wilkes, Wheeler, Gill, 1951) and ran the Cambridge lab into the 80s.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes