Identity area
Reference code
Smithies/M/M11
Unique identifier
GB 275 Smithies/M/M11
Title
Historical studies in science and technology and the uses to which they can be put
Date(s)
- 1999 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
8p 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.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Offprint from 'Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London' 53:1 (1999), 3-10.