[SIGCIS-Members] Maurice Wilkes died yesterday

[Thomas Haigh]

[Forwarded from James Sumner. Wilkes was probably (at least I can't
immediately think of any others) the last surviving leader or senior
participant from the major experimental computing projects of the 1940s.]

Dear listmembers

Sir Maurice Wilkes, leader of the EDSAC project, longterm (1949-1980)
director of the University of Cambridge Mathematical/Computer
Laboratory, microprogramming theorist and founding president of the
British Computer Society, died yesterday, 29 November 2010, at the age
of 97.

The BCS has an obituary here:
http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.38150

Best regards
James