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He was awarded the world's first PhD in computer science in 1951. Career. Wheeler's contributions to the field included work on the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) in the 1950s and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (published 1994).
- Automatic Computing With EDSAC (1951)
- Maurice Wilkes
- David John Wheeler, 9 February 1927, Birmingham, England
- University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
David John Wheeler FRS (Birmingham, 9 de fevereiro de 1927 — Cambridge, 13 de dezembro de 2004) [2] [3] [4] [5] foi um pioneiro da computação britânico. Nascido em Birmingham, obteve uma bolsa de estudos para matemática no Trinity College (Cambridge), graduando-se em 1948. Foi o primeiro a obter doutorado em ciência da ...
Wheeler was born in Birmingham and gained a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge to read the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, graduating in 1948. [14] He completed the world's first PhD in computer science in 1951. [15] Career. Wheeler's contributions to the field included work on the EDSAC [16] and the Burrows–Wheeler transform.
2 de abr. de 2024 · Wheeler was emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Cambridge, where he spent most of his career. He was elected a Fellow of the British Computing Society (1970) and of the Royal Society (1983), and was awarded a Pioneer Medal of the IEEE (1985).
David Wheeler was a private man who was not well known outside the academic computer science community, but his significant contribution to modern computing was widely acknowledged within the field. He was elected a fellow of the British Computer Society in 1970, and in 1981 he became one of the earliest computer scientists to be elected a ...
16 de dez. de 2004 · Professor Wheeler was one of the pioneers of Computer Science. He worked on the original EDSAC computer and wrote the first computer program ever to be stored in a computer's working memory. He pioneered the use of sub-routines and is particularly remembered for his work on data compression.
David Wheeler. 1927 - 2004. Along with Maurice Wilkes and Stanley Gill, David Wheeler is credited with the invention in around 1951 of the subroutine and he gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.
