Maurice Wilkes

"The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different ma…"

"A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without necessarily intending them to be the prototype for serial…"

"Since 1954, the raw speed of computers, as measured by the time it takes to do an addition, increased by a factor of 10,000. That means an algorithm that once took 10 minutes to perform can now be don…"

"Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities had played their part in computer design, an…"

"In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as…"

"Surveying the shifts of interest among computer scientists and the ever-expanding family of those who depend on computers for their work, one cannot help being struck by the power of the computer to b…"

"M. V. Wilkes Bibliography at University of Cambridge website"