COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Maurice Wilkes

1913 - 2010

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Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Wilkes has received more than 227,508 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Maurice Wilkes is the 36th most popular computer scientist (up from 37th in 2019), the 1,446th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,569th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Maurice Wilkes by language

Over the past year Maurice Wilkes has had the most page views in the with 26,996 views, followed by Spanish (4,805), and Russian (3,834). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (183.33%), Esperanto (115.26%), and Croatian (70.52%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Maurice Wilkes ranks 36 out of 245. Before him are Tony Hoare, Allen Newell, Satoshi Nakamoto, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Ken Kutaragi, and Leonard Kleinrock. After him are Juris Hartmanis, Jef Raskin, Alan Perlis, Frances E. Allen, Edmund M. Clarke, and Charles Bachman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Maurice Wilkes ranks 99. Before him are Alexander Marinesko, Willi Hennig, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Georgy Flyorov, Álvaro Cunhal, and Lucien Goldmann. After him are Alan Ladd, José Sánchez del Río, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Gustaaf Deloor, Waldemar de Brito, and Otto Wichterle. Among people deceased in 2010, Maurice Wilkes ranks 83. Before him are Laurent Fignon, Johan Ferrier, Peter Graves, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Pierre Hadot, and Irvin Kershner. After him are Nicolas Hayek, Alexander Haig, Luis Molowny, André Kolingba, Dimitrios Ioannidis, and Vladislav Ardzinba.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Maurice Wilkes ranks 1,446 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565), Jason Isaacs (1963), David Hemmings (1941), David Bradley (1942), George Arliss (1868), and Reginald Doherty (1872). After him are Brian Aldiss (1925), Kate Sheppard (1848), Colin Wilson (1931), Joseph Addison (1672), Sophie, Countess of Wessex (1965), and George Romney (1734).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Maurice Wilkes ranks 4. Before him are Alan Turing (1912), Tim Berners-Lee (1955), and Edgar F. Codd (1923). After him are Geoffrey Hinton (1947), James H. Wilkinson (1919), Robin Milner (1934), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Richard Garriott (1961), Paul Graham (1964), and David Marr (1945).

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