1967 – Maurice V Wilkes
Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC,
the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury
delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation
of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively
introduced.
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