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 are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share
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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