Memoirs of a computer pioneer (1985)

Maurice Wilkes delivers a captivating firsthand retrospective from the very dawn of stored-program electronic computation at Cambridge University. As the principal architect of EDSAC and the inventor of microprogramming, Wilkes recounts the monumental conceptual hurdles of devising electronic memory, subroutine libraries, and microprogrammed control units. His recollections provide an incomparable window into the pioneering engineering breakthroughs that established the fundamental tenets of modern computer hardware architecture.