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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
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)