About Maurice Wilkes
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes 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. In 1967 he won the ACM Turing Award. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge.
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Awards & Honors
honorary doctor of the University of Munich
honorary doctor of the University of Bath
honorary doctor of Linköping University
honorary doctor of the University of Kent
Turing Award
IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Knight Bachelor
Faraday Medal
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Eckert–Mauchly Award
W. Wallace McDowell Award
Clifford Paterson Lecture
Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society
Fellow of the British Computer Society
Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
Mountbatten Medal
Harold Pender Award
Fellow of the Royal Society
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
ACM Fellow
Computer History Museum Fellow
honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge
Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich
honorary doctor of the University of Pennsylvania
