An interview with Maurice Wilkes

David Anderson

doi:10.1145/1562164.1562180

An interview with Maurice Wilkes

David Anderson

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Presented here are excerpts from an interview with Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes, the developer of the Electronic Display Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), microprogramming, symbolic labels, macros, and subroutine libraries. Wilkes, the 1967 ACM A.M Turing Award recipient and winner of the ACM lifetime membership award, is a former member of Olivecti's Research Strategy Board and an emeritus professor at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in the U.K. David P. Anderson, Principal Lecturer in the History of Computing at the School of Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth, U.K., conducted the interview with Wilkes, 96, earlier this year.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	39-42
Number of pages	4
Journal	Communications of the ACM
Volume	52
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1562164.1562180
Publication status	Published - Sept 2009

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