[Forwarded from James Sumner]
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
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