Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Question - 575


Identify the person and the object.

Answer: Maurice Wilkes, the pioneering British computer scientist who recently passed away, and EDSAC, the first practical stored-program computer. Anand, matti tapaninen, Manix, and Dinesh got it. Nice work.

5 comments:

Divya Shankar said...

Konrad Zuse and his electromechanical Z machines.

Anand said...

Maurice Wilkes who constructed the EDSAC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Delay_Storage_Automatic_Calculator

matti tapaninen said...

Maurice Wilkes and EDSAC

Anonymous said...

Maurice Wilkes & the EDSAC

Dinesh said...

Maurice Wilkes who passed away recently with EDSAC.