| In 1935 Maurice Wilkes started
as a student under Jack Ratcliffe at the Cavendish
Laboratory working on the propagation of long radio
waves. At the start of the war he was posted to
work on radar at the Army's Air Defence Experimental Establishment at
Christchurch, Dorset. After the move to Malvern,
he worked on Oboe - the radio navigation aid for blind
bombing.
After the war he returned to Cambridge University
where he worked to development the first
computers. In the 1970s he pioneered the
development of the Cambridge Ring - a Local Area Network
to interconnect computers.
Prof Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FRS
26 June 1913 - 29 November 2010 |
