Maurice Wilkes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maurice Wilkes

British computer scientist

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1913

Place of Birth: Dudley, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-Nov-2010

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, physicist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers and invented microprogramming, a method for using stored-program logic to operate the control unit of a central processing unit's circuits.
At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Cambridge.