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Papers of Maurice Wilkes
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Administrative correspondence relating to consultancies, membership of official committees, Cambridge University Wireless society's G6UWamateur wireless station licence, etc,

Includes correspondence with John Pinkerton and J. G. Bates, ICL, 1979-80; J. D. Littlehailes and M. A. J. W. Pegg, ICI, 1979-80; K. B. Huntbatch, Plessey, 1975-6; T. C. Hudson, IBM, 1957-61; Sir Gordon Cox and L. S. Porter, Agricultural Research Council, 1966-76; F. J. M. Farley, D. R. J. Stephen and Major-General T. L. Morony, RMCS Shrivenham, and J. M. Parkin, Ministry of Defence, 1973-80; the GPO and R. C. Wainright, Selwyn College, re the G6UW licence, 1946-72. Also a note from The Spectator enclosing fee for 'Can Machines Think?', 1951, and certificate of election as Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1972.

Awards

Loose items, including MVW's father's professional certificates; MVW's Higher School Certificate, 1931; FRS, 1956; Silver Medal certificate of the City of Paris, 1959; IFIP Silver Core, 1974; ACM SIGMICRO, 1977; Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam, 1978; Eckert-Mauchly Award, 1980; IEEE John von Neumann Medal certificate, 1987; Kyoto Prize certificate, 1992; Honorary Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, 1996.

Photograph album assembled by MVW to provide possible illustrations for his Memoirs, c. 1980.

Photograph album recording the award of the C&C Prize, 1988.

Photograph album recording the award of the Kyoto Prize, 1992.

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