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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 229,896 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Wilkes is the 37th most popular computer scientist (down from 25th in 2019), the 1,574th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,231st in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Maurice Wilkes ranks 37 out of 201. Before him are Ivan Sutherland, Barbara Liskov, J. C. R. Licklider, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Peter Naur, and Ken Kutaragi. After him are Brian Kernighan, Nolan Bushnell, Allen Newell, Jack Dorsey, Frances E. Allen, and Don Norman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Maurice Wilkes ranks 107. Before him are Pinetop Perkins, Masatoshi Nakayama, Donald Maclean, Alfred Bester, Wols, and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. After him are Hélio Gracie, Yasuo Suzuki, Philip Abelson, Trevor Howard, Lucien Goldmann, and Elisaveta Bykova. Among people deceased in 2010, Maurice Wilkes ranks 88. Before him are Raymond Franz, Peter Graves, Robert Culp, Captain Beefheart, Charlie Wilson, and Teddy Scholten. After him are Martin Sandberger, Howard Zinn, Miguel Delibes, Erich Segal, Vladislav Ardzinba, and Dick Francis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Maurice Wilkes ranks 1,574 out of 7,765. Before him are David Coulthard (1971), Frances Shand Kydd (1936), Margaret Douglas (1515), William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708), John Barbirolli (1899), and Oliver Hart (1948). After him are Rupert Sheldrake (1942), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), Rafael Merry del Val (1865), Roger Hunt (1938), Eric Knight (1897), and George Smith (1840).

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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 James H. Wilkinson (1919), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Robin Milner (1934), Gary McKinnon (1966), Richard Garriott (1961), and Martin Fowler (1963).

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