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| | Maurice Vincent Wilkes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Maurice Vincent Wilkes (born June 26, 1913 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England) is a British computer scientist, credited with several important developments in computing. | | | Later, Wilkes worked on an early timesharing systems (now termed a multi-user operating system) and distributed computing. | | | He was appointed to a junior faculty position of the University of Cambridge through which he was involved in the establishment of a computing laboratory. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes
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| | Maurice V. Wilkes |
| | Wilkes was given the opportunity of one night in which to read and digest the document which described the stored program computer concept. | | | Wilkes' initial brief was to supervise the construction of the new differential analyzer and visit Manchester University to gain experience on the differential analyzer there. | | | Wilkes, Maurice V. "The Design of a Practical High-Speed Computing Machine", Proc. |
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http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Wilkes.html
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| | Charles Babbage Institute: RESEARCH PROGRAM> Current research |
| | Maurice V. Wilkes, then of the Mathematical Laboratory of Cambridge University, invented microprogramming technique several months after observing the Whirlwind computer on a visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950. | | | The solution, noted Wilkes, “could only be achieved by giving the control unit the full flexibility of a programmed computer in miniature.” This meant that the operation code could now be written entirely at the discretion of programmers themselves, custom-tailoring the hardware architecture. | | | At the time, Wilkes was troubled by what he termed the “irregular structure” of control circuits in parallel computing machines. |
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http://www.cbi.umn.edu/shp/entries/microprogramming.html
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| | David Wheeler |
| | As a member of the team working with Maurice Wilkes on Cambridge’s Edsac (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer), he was responsible for the system that provided instructions to the computer, and the innovations he made at the time still form the basis of modern computer programming. | | | During this period Maurice Wilkes was working in the reopened Mathematical Laboratory, as the Computer Laboratory was known until 1970, on a project to build a stored-program electronic computer called Edsac. | | | Maurice V. Wilkes, David J. Wheeler, and Stanley Gill, The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, Special Reference to the EDSAC and the Use of a Library of Subroutines 1951 (reprint, Los Angeles, 1982). |
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http://www.thocp.net/biographies/wheeler_david.htm
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| | The machine that changed the world - Computing |
| | Wilkes (right) and colleagues in the 1930s with a mechanical analogue computer that was designed to solve differential equations. | | | Sir Maurice Wilkes drives daily to the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, where he has an office as emeritus professor, and his mind is as agile as ever. | | | Much more important to Wilkes was the 18,000-valve Electronic Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer (Eniac) completed in 1945 in the US by a team led by Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, initially to perform artillery calculations. |
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http://www.computing.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2045826/machine-changed-world
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| | Ivars Peterson's MathLand |
| | Fortunately, because Wilkes knew what the answers to the Airy equation should be, he had a way of checking the figures spewed out by the computer. | | | When the EDSAC made its computational debut at the Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory of Cambridge University in May 1949, it was the first stored-program computer to become operational. | | | In an influential 1951 textbook on computer programming, Wilkes observed, "Experience has shown that such mistakes are much more difficult to avoid than might be expected. |
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http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathland_7_8.html
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| | Millennium Honours: Cambridge academics in New Year list |
| | Now eighty-six, Professor Wilkes played a prominent part in the setting up of the EDSAC computer, which was the world's first fully operational computer in general use. | | | Professor Maurice Wilkes was awarded a knighthood in recognition of his pioneering work in computing. | | | Maurice Wilkes during the creation of the historic EDSAC computer, which came into use in Cambridge in 1949. |
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http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2000010701
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| | Letter in response to M. V. Wilkes |
| | The essence of Wilkes' argument is that digital computers cannot simulate the operation of the analog brain. | | | It is sad to see the distinguished computer scientist Maurice V. Wilkes repeating an old, tired, and very wrong argument about the possibility of artificial intelligence. | | | Not only is the operation of the brain digital in part -- neurons fire in discrete spikes -- but Wilkes falsely assumes that the brain can make use of unlimited analog accuracy. |
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http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/cacm92.html
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| | Commencement '96: Honorary Degree Recipients |
| | Maurice Wilkes, a pioneer in the development of the modern computer, is Professor Emeritus of Computer Technology at the University of Cambridge and Advisor on Research Strategy at Olivetti Research Limited in Cambridge, England. | | | Among his many groundbreaking publications in the computer field, Dr. Wilkes co-authored the first textbook on computer programming in 1951. | | | Inspired by the development of ENIAC as well as a legendary summer lecture series on electronic computing that he attended at Penn's Moore School in 1946, Dr. Wilkes led the construction in 1949 of EDSAC 1, the world's first stored program computer. |
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http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v42/n28/degrees.html
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| | COLLOQUIUM DE ROCQUENCOURT - 09/12/1997 - Maurice V. Wilkes |
| | Since 1980 Wilkes has worked in industry, first with DEC in Massachusetts and now with the Olivetti and Oracle Research Laboratory in Cambridge, England, where he is staff advisor on research strategy. | | | In 1967, Wilkes delivered the ACM Turing Lecture and in 1980 he received the Eckert-Mauchly award from the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. | | | In 1974, it appeared to Wilkes that the time had come when local area networks based on traditional telecommunication technology might profitable be replaced by networks of much wider bandwidth based on computer technology. |
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http://www.inria.fr/actualites/colloques/1997/COLLOQUIUM971209-fra.html
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| | Computer History Museum - 2001 Fellow Award Recipient, Maurice V. Wilkes |
| | In 1974, Wilkes concluded that local area networks could be more effective if based on computer rather than telecommunications technology. | | | In 1946, Wilkes attended the Moore School lectures on computers in Philadelphia, and immediately afterward began working on the EDSAC, which became functional in 1949. | | | In 1951, along with two colleagues, he published the first book on computer programming. |
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http://www.computerhistory.org/events/hall_of_fellows/wilkes/index.shtml
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| | The Computer Museum is proud to have the NEAC 2201, one of the first transistorized computers in Japan built by NEC, components of EDSAC, Maurice Wilkes' Cambridge University computer that is the first fully operational stored program machine, and other non-U. computers. | | | After seeing Wilkes' project, Thompson told me he was impressed by the squareness of the pulses he saw on an oscilloscope in the lab (even though he had no knowledge of electronics). | | | I wrote a thesis on ultrasonic absorption in liquids using a pulse method which, as it happened, was an ideal preparation for work on computers using delay lines for storage. |
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http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/TheCompMusRep/TCMR-V21.html
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| | 50th anniversary for world-first computer - Computeract!ve |
| | Wilkes' project Edsac (electronic delay storage automatic calculator) went live computing a table of square roots. | | | Fifty years ago today, computing history was made when Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge won the race to produce the world's first 'working' stored-program computer. | | | Wilkes, a contemporary of UK computing legend Alan Turing, has never quite gained the recognition his rival won. |
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http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computing/news/2066382/50th-anniversary-world-first-computer
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| | Science through the Centuries: The Birth of Computer Science |
| | Prior to the arrival of Maurice Wilkes, the Computer Laboratory was known as the Mathematical Laboratory and worked on mechanical calculators and analogue computers. | | | In 1949, Wilkes developed the first successful digital computer, adding to Babbage's ideas a vital ingredient - a memory that would allow the storage and retrieval of data. | | | The technology of the day was not far enough advanced for Babbage to build this precursor of the modern computer, despite his persistent lobbying for funds and support. |
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http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/science/sciencetour/newton_people.html
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| | BBC News SCI/TECH Computer pioneers given UK honours |
| | Maurice Wilkes led the Cambridge University team that developed the Edsac - Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator. | | | So too has Maurice Wilkes, who developed the world's first practical stored-program computer in 1949. | | | Nevertheless, it went down in history as the first truly programmable computer. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_584000/584272.stm
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| | Wilkes, Maurice Vincent - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Wilkes, Maurice Vincent |
| | Wilkes chose the serial mode, in which the information in the computer is processed in sequence (and not several parts at once, as in the parallel type). | | | English mathematician who led the team at Cambridge University that built the EDSAC (electronic delay storage automatic calculator) in 1949, one of the earliest of the British electronic computers. | | | This design incorporated mercury delay lines (developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) as the elements of the memory. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Wilkes,+Maurice+Vincent
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| | Caleah's Web Page |
| | The simulator has all the controls and displays of teh original machine and is used to teach the history of computing. | | | He was the Director of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory throughout the development of stored program computers starting with EDSAC; the inventor of labels, macros and microprogramming; and along with David Wheeler and Stanley Gill, the inventor of a programming system based on subroutines. | | | In February of 1937 Cambridge University gave formal approval for the creation of a computer laboratory to be called the "Mathematical Laboratory". |
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http://www.willamette.edu/~cconrad/lab0.html
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| | DDJ>Programming Paradigms |
| | Wilkes coded up the program in EDSAC's 18-instruction machine language, a clerk punched the paper tape and fed it to EDSAC, and the program ran flawlessly. | | | The idea that there might be logical or transcription errors in the submitted code, or that the erroneous output of the computer could be used to find the errors, apparently hadn't occurred to anyone. | | | The first program to run on the machine, written by the guy who caused it to be, Maurice Wilkes, was trivial: It computed the squares of the first n integers. |
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http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=905/ddj9903j/9903js1.htm
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| | Edsac Links |
| | The Virtual Museum of Computing is the most comprehensive list of everything about the history of computing. | | | Visit computer historian Jan Lee's web site for a biography of Maurice V. |
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http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/Links.html
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| | Computer Resurrection Issue 2 |
| | We simply used the same control circuitry that was there, which Maurice Wilkes had provided very kindly for doing multiplication, to do conversion by simply looking at the successive values of binary coded decimal numbers and adding the difference into the accumulator. | | | So if you stored the binary equivalent of 10 and were in a position to shift it one, two, or three places you could also generate the binary versions of 20, 40 and 80. | | | One of the major differences was that there was an enormous amount of input and output to do and relatively little calculation. |
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http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res02.htm
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| | Maurice V. Wilkes was formerly Professor of computer technology at Cambridge, England, and was head of the Computer Laboratory. | | | They appeared to proceed on the assumption that the only way to find errors in a table was to repeat the calculations or, ideally, to compare the table with one computed entirely independently. | | | Although he failed to complete his version of the engine, an independent implementation of his ideas was carried through by Georg and Edvard Scheutz. |
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http://ed-thelen.org/bab/Wilkes-Babbage.html
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| | The Emergence of Computing Science Research and Teaching at Cambridge, 1936-l949 |
| | The remainder of the article considers how Wilkes developed the work of the laboratory and built up a research team to work on the EDSAC project, which established Cambridge as a major center of computer research. | | | [5] Wilkes, M. Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer. | | | [15] M.V. Wilkes, "Computers Before Silicon: Design Decisions on Edsac," IEE Rev., Dec. 1990, pp. |
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http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/an/&toc=comp/mags/an/1992/04/a4toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/85.194050
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| | Wilkes' book: Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer |
| | Maurice Wilkes, ISBN 0-262-23122-0 Call number QA76.17.w55 1985, MIT Press | | | He admitted that at the present time the binary system lent a certain simplicity to design, but maintained that, once we really knew how to build a decimal machine, this advantage, for what it was worth, would disappear." | | | Page 227, "For example, he (Strachey) did not like the use of the Algol word "else," which he said was ungrammatical, and he insisted that in out paper we should use "otherwise." |
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http://www.nd.edu/~milind/posts/wilkes.html
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| | 1949 EDSAC Maurice Wilkes |
| | First working full scale stored program computer - Maurice V. Wilkes - Cambridge University. |
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http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~alan/COMS11301/cm1w1l1/sld021.htm
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| | Five 1951 BBC Broadcasts on Automatic Calculating Machines |
| | [24] M.V. Wilkes, Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer, MIT Press Series in the History of Computing, B. Cohen, ed., 1985, MIT Press, p. | | | [31] M.V. Wilkes, Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer, pp. | | | [26] M. Campbell-Kelly,, "Introduction," toThe Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer by M. Wilkes, D. Wheeler, and S. Gill, p. |
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http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/an/&toc=comp/mags/an/2004/02/a2toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/MAHC.2004.1299654
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| | EDSAC - TheBestLinks.com - Elliptic curve, John von Neumann, May 6, Maurice Wilkes, ... |
| | The EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer) ran its first program May 6, 1949, and was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory, inspired by the EDVAC design report by John von Neumann. | | | This was not the first stored program computer (see the Small-Scale Experimental Machine), but rather the first practical stored program computer. | | | EDSAC - TheBestLinks.com - Elliptic curve, John von Neumann, May 6, Maurice Wilkes,... |
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http://www.thebestlinks.com/EDSAC.html
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| | 1951 |
| | Maurice Wilkes originates the concept of micro-programming, a technique providing an orderly approach to design a computer system's control section. | | | Jay Forrester files a patent application for the matrix core memory an May 11. | | | David Wheeler, Maurice Wilkes, and Stanley Gill introduce sub-programs and the "Wheeler jump" as a means to implement them. |
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http://zeus.fh-brandenburg.de/~tenbusch/history/20.html
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| | Creativity in Invention and Design - Subrata DasGupta |
| | Using an important historical episode in computer technology as a case study, namely, the invention of microprogramming by Maurice Wilkes in 1951, the author presents a plausible explanation of the process by which Wilkes may have arrived at his invention. | | | In this book, creativity in technology is discussed within such a computational framework. | | | Based on this case study, the author has also proposed some very general hypotheses concerning creativity that appear to corroborate the findings of some psychologists and historians and then suggests that creative thinking is not significantly different in nature from everyday thinking and reasoning. |
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http://www.englishbooks.it/BUS/0521430682/Creativity_in_Invention_and_Design.htm
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| | May 7, 1999, Hour 1:A Computing Pioneer / Stone Tools and Human Origins |
| | We'll talk to Maurice Wilkes, inventor of the EDSAC, about his invention - and about what it meant to be one of the first computer programmers on the planet. | | | Later users could then recall that operation without having to reprogram the computer. | | | This week, researchers announced that some of the earliest known stone tools -- tools that are over 2.3 million years old -- are much more advanced than previously thought. |
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http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1999/May/hour1_050799.html
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| | Post World War II |
| | stored program machine in the world, then first large scale, fully functional, stored-program electronic digital computer was developed by Maurice Wilkes and the staff of the Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge University. | | | Later that year Eckert and Mauchly, in a patent dispute with the University of Pennsylvania, left the University to establish the first computer company -- Electronic Control Corp. with a plan to build the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC). | | | It was named EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer); the primary storage system was a set of mercury baths through which generated and regenerated acoustic pulses represented the bits of data. |
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http://virtualmuseum.dlib.vt.edu/cgi-bin/ShowPage/postww2.html?Whence=Chronology
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| | He collaborated with Derrick Lehmer and Haskell Curry in the Computing Laboratory at NBS and worked on computing firing tables. | | | In the transcript of this meeting, Samuel Alexander reflects on the pioneering contributions he made to the introduction and exploitation of computers in the Federal government. | | | Also contributing to a panel discussion were - George Stibitz, Richard Bloch, John Mauchly, Herman Goldstine, Ed Cannon, Maurice Wilkes, Grace Hopper, Jay Forrester and Arnold Cohen. |
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http://nvl.nist.gov/docspub/ARCHINDXORALH.doc
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| | Maurice Wilkes used an assembly-like language to program for the Brittish supercomputer EDSAC. | | | HERE ARE SOME SITES I HAVE FOUND ON THE "INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY" (also known as "cyberspace"): | | | He is responsible for recognizing the significance of "debugging" before executing a program, among other such monumental accomplishments that makes him a prime candidate for a mid term ID. |
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mpj9d/mdst.html
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| | Z User Workshop, Cambridge 1994 |
| | The meeting was held 45 years to the week after the first ever European conference on computer science held at the same location in 1949, at which Prof. | | | Maurice Wilkes (Olivetti) as an after dinner speaker. |
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http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/z/zum94.html
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| | Encyclopedia article on Maurice Wilkes [EncycloZine] |
| | Products related to Maurice Wilkes: books, DVD, electronics, garden, kitchen, magazines, music, photo, posters, software, tools, toys, VHS, videogames | | | Visit Curious-Minds.co.UK for educational games and toys, and science kits. |
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http://encyclozine.com/Maurice_Wilkes
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| | Charles Babbage -- Part II |
| | Wilkes, Maurice V. "Charles Babbage - The Great Uncle of Computing?", Comm. | | | Portraits in Silicon, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, Chapter 1. | | | Wilkes, Maurice V. "Babbage and the Colossus", (CQD), Ann. |
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http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.2.html
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| | AV #88934 - Video Cassette - ACM97: The Next 50 Years of Computing [ Tape 4. Vint Cerf, Brenda Laurel, Maurice Wilkes ] |
| | This series of lectures, given at the 1997 Conference of the Association for Computing Machinery, presents visions of tomorrow’s information technology as seen by today’s experts. | | | Vint Cerf speculates on the future of the Internet, Brenda Laure l explains the long-term impact of information technology on culture, and Maurice Wilkes describes impediments to technological advancement in this fourth program. | | | Last modified on July 28, 2005 by av@sfsu.edu |
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http://www.sfsu.edu/~avitv/avcatalog/88934.htm
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| | The Science Bookstore - Chronology |
| | EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) is developed at the University of Cambridge by Maurice V. Wilkes. | | | Maurice V. Wilkes at Cambridge University uses assembler (symbolic assembly language) on EDSAC. |
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http://www.thesciencebookstore.com/chron.asp?pg=36
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| | Operating Systems Review, Volume 14, 1980 |
| | Maurice V. Wilkes: A New Hardware Capability Architecture. | | | Maurice V. Wilkes, Roger M. Needham: The Cambridge Model Distributed System. |
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http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/sigops/sigops14.html
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| | Maurice Margarot |
| | Age and care had made havoc with his appearance, but the lively and intelligent spirit still shone through it; and we understand it was so unsubdued to the last, that on the verge of the grave, he was meditating a history of his life. | | | Maurice Margarot was of middle stature and had been handsome in his youth, was well-proportioned, full of pleasantry and anecdote, with elegant manners - a scholar and a gentleman. | | | Margarot made a four hour speech in defence of his actions. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRmargarot.htm
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| | Armstrong 4 28 0 28 0 11 7.0 Brandon Wilkes 2 3 0 3 0 2 1.5 Dee Leiser 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 Craig Moore 9 21 26 -5 0 11 -0.6 Stefan Fanthrop 1 0 10 -10 0 0 -10.0 Nick George 3 1 14 -13 1 1 -4.3 Totals... | | | R 3-3 N40 Nick George pass incomplete to Maurice Mazique. | | | R 1-G N07 Nick George pass incomplete to Maurice Mazique. |
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http://www.niacc.cc.ia.us/athletics/football/2004_stats/10-9-04_rvc.html
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| | Maurice Wilkes : QuicklyFind Info |
| | I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." | | | Current topic : Maurice Wilkes - View Index - Search for : |
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http://www.quicklyfind.com/quote-maurice_wilkes.html
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| | CS 378-W HoC: Lecture Notes 5 |
| | >1946 Aug 31: Wilkes visits Aiken at Harvard on his way home. | | | 1946 Aug 18: Wilkes joins Moore School lectures late [p101] | | | 1946 May: Comrie shows EDVAC report to Wilkes at Cambridge |
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http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/good/2002/cs378hoc/Wilkes.html
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| | SCS Videotape Collection - DLS |
| | Tape 4: Vinton Cerf, Brenda Laurel, Maurice Wilkes |
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/copetas/www/public/video/acm.html
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