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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.
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Konrad Zuse and his electromechanical Z machines.
Maurice Wilkes who constructed the EDSAC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Delay_Storage_Automatic_Calculator
Maurice Wilkes and EDSAC
Maurice Wilkes & the EDSAC
Maurice Wilkes who passed away recently with EDSAC.
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