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| alma_mater = University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1936) | doctoral_advisor = John Ashworth Ratcliffe | thesis_title = The reflexion of very long wireless waves from the ionosphere | thesis_year = 1939 | thesis_url = http://www.theses.com | doctoral_students = | known_for = | author_abbreviation_bot = | author_abbreviation_zoo = | prizes = | spouse = | children = one son, two daughers | website = }} Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FRS, FREng, DFBCS (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Cambridge. 〔http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Wilkes.html Biography of Maurice Wilkes〕〔http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/30/sir-maurice-wilkes-obituary Obituary in ''The Guardian''〕〔http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/maurice-wilkes-visionary-and-pioneering-doyen-of-british-computing-2147811.html Obituary in ''The Independent''〕〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/8171435/Professor-Sir-Maurice-Wilkes.html Obituary in ''The Telegraph''〕〔Automatic Digital Computers. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1956, 305 pages, QA76.W5 1956.〕 ==Early life, education, and military service== Wilkes was born in Dudley, Worcestershire, England〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CV for Maurice V. Wilkes )〕 and grew up in Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, where his father worked on the estate of the Earl of Dudley. He was educated at King Edward VI College, Stourbridge and during his school years he was introduced to amateur radio by his chemistry teacher. He went on to read the Mathematical Tripos at St John's College, Cambridge from 1931–34, continuing to complete a PhD in physics on the topic of radio propagation of very long radio waves in the ionosphere in 1936. He was appointed to a junior faculty position of the University of Cambridge through which he was involved in the establishment of a computing laboratory. He was called up for military service during World War II and worked on radar at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), and in operational research. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maurice Wilkes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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