Frank Yates
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Frank Yates FRS was an English statistician who was one of the pioneers of 20th-century statistics.
Frank Yates at the statistics conference at the Blue Ridge Assembly in Asheville, NC during the summer of 1952.
Maurice Wilkes
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Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, one of the earliest stored-program computers, and who inve
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…of statistical computing. During 1960–61, he was President of the British Computer Society, succeeding the founding president and computer pioneer, Maurice Wilkes. In 1960, he was awarded the Guy Medal in Gold of the Royal Statistical Society and, in 1966, he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society. He…
Maurice Wilkes in 1980
Maurice Wilkes (right) with the Meccano differential analyser in the Cambridge University Mathematics Laboratory, c. 1937. A. F. Devonshire (left) co-authored a number of papers on melting and disorder with the Laboratory's first director, John Lennard-Jones. The winner of the 1937 Mayhew Prize, J. Corner, is operating the input table (centre).
Maurice Wilkes inspecting the mercury delay line of the EDSAC in construction