Maurice Wilkes was a British computer scientist who led the team at the University of Cambridge that built EDSAC, which ran its first program in May 1949 and is widely credited as the first computer to offer a regular, practical computing service to its users, alongside earlier and competing claims for other stored-program machines built around the same time. Wilkes also introduced microprogramming, a systematic method for implementing a computers control logic using a lower-level stored program of its own, still used in processor design today. He received the first Turing Award, given in 1967.
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Maurice Wilkes led the Cambridge CAP computer project at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, built 1970 to 1977.
EDSAC, Systems Maurice Wilkes led the EDSAC project at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory, running its first program in 1949.
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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.
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