Mary Allen Wilkes | |
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| Born | September 25, 1937 (age 87) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Wellesley College, Harvard Law School |
| Known for | Work with LINC computer |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer programming, logic design, law |
| Institutions | MIT, Washington University in St. Louis |
Mary Allen Wilkes (born September 25, 1937) is a lawyer, former computer programmer and logic designer, known for her work with the LINC computer, now recognized by many as the world's first "personal computer".[1]
- ^ Multiple sources:
- IEEE Computer Society Women of ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award to Wesley A. Clark for the "First Personal Computer", 1981, Computer.org. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
- "How the Computer became Personal", John Markoff, NY Times, Aug. 19, 2001
- Clark, Wesley A., "The LINC was Early and Small", Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery: History of the Personal Computer, Jan. 9-10, 1986, pp. 133-155. ACM-0-89791-176-8-1/86-0133.
- Bell, C. Gordon, J. Craig Mudge, and John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering, Digital Press, 1978, p. 175.