In 1998 Manchester University and the City of Manchester celebrated the 50th anniversary of one of the scientific breakthroughs that define the modern era – the world’s first electronic stored-program ...
Sir Maurice Wilkes, who has died aged 97, was the most important figure in the development of practical computing in the UK. Not only did he lead the development of EDSAC, the first stored-program ...
Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes, who died on Monday aged 97, led the Cambridge University team that built the world’s first operational stored-program computer. The computer, known as EDSAC (Electronic ...
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