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自1984年始,英国电气工程师协会(IEE)计算机与控制分会将每年举办一次专题讲座。为表彰M.V.Wilkes教授在计算机科学方面的杰出贡献,首届讲座由他发表了本篇演讲。Wilkes于1946—1980年任剑桥大学计算机技术教授,80年退休。现任剑桥大学荣誉教授、美国数字设备公司(DEC)顾问、麻省理工学院客座教授、美国科学院和工程学院通讯院士。他自1946年起任剑桥大学数学研究所(70年起更名为计算机研究所)主任,1957—1960任英国计算机协会首届主席,1981年获IEE颁发的法拉第奖。40年代中叶,英国几乎与美国同时地发展计算机工程。Wilkes教授是仍然在世的不多的几位这段历史的主要参予者之一。译文略有删节。
Since 1984, the IEE Computer and Control Branch will hold a special lecture each year. In recognition of Professor M.V. Wilkes’ outstanding contributions to computer science, the first lecture was delivered by him. Wilkes was a professor of computer technology at Cambridge University from 1946 to 1980 and retired in 1980. He is currently an honorary professor at Cambridge University, a consultant at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a visiting professor at MIT, and a fellow in communications at the American Academy of Sciences and Engineering. He has been the director of the Institute of Mathematics at Cambridge University (renamed Computer Institute since 1970), the first chairman of the British Computer Society since 1957-1960, and the Faraday Prize awarded by the IEE in 1981. By the mid-1940s, Britain was developing computer engineering almost simultaneously with the United States. Professor Wilkes is one of the few major participants in this history that is still alive. The translation is slightly abridged.