Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Maurice Wilkes
Born: June 26, 1913
Died: November 29, 2010 (aged 97)
Bio: Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes was a British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Cambridge.
Known for:
- Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer (1985)
- A Short Introduction to Numerical Analysis (1966)
- Computing perspectives (1995)
- Time-sharing Computer Systems (1968)