Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)