Maurice Wilkes

Maurice Wilkes (1913-2010) was a British computer scientist and pioneer in the field of computing. He is best known for designing and building the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), one of the world's first practical stored-program computers. Wilkes made significant contributions to computer architecture, programming languages, and operating systems. His work laid the foundation for modern computer systems and had a profound impact on the development of computing technology.

Built the first practical stored program computer (EDSAC) to be completed and for being credited with the ideas of several high-level programming language constructs.

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.