Identity area
Reference code
Smithies/A/A71
Unique identifier
GB 275 Smithies/A/A71
Title
Correspondence between Smithies and Wilkes
Date(s)
- 24 July 1933–1 Jan. 2000 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 file paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1913-2010)
Biographical history
BA 1934; PhD 1938; Fellow 1950-2010; FRS 1956. Professor of Computing Technology 1965-80. Director of the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory, subsequently the Computer Laboratory. Designer of the EDSAC programmable computer, which successfully ran its first significant program on 6 May 1949. Honoured as a pioneer of computing in the UK, Maurice Wilkes was knighted in 2000. He was the first recipient of the Kyoto Prize, computer science's most prestigious award.