Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities had played their part in computer design, and that the matter could now safely be left… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
Surveying the shifts of interest among computer scientists and the ever-expanding family of those who depend on computers for their work, one cannot help… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949,… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
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