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 computação, em 1951.
Publicações
- The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer by Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill; (original 1951); reprinted with new introduction by Martin Campbell-Kelly; 198 pp.; illus; biblio; bios; index; ISBN 0-262-23118-2
Referências
Ligações externas
- Oral history interview with David Wheeler, 14 May 1987. Instituto Charles Babbage, University of Minnesota. Wheeler was a research student at the University Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge from 1948–51, and a pioneer programmer on the EDSAC project. Wheeler discusses projects that were run on EDSAC, user-oriented programming methods, and the influence of EDSAC on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701. Wheeler also notes visits by Douglas Hartree, Nelson Blackman (of ONR), Peter Naur, Aad van Wijngarden, Arthur van der Poel, Friedrich Bauer, and Louis Couffignal.
- Oral history interview with Gene H. Golub. Instituto Charles Babbage, University of Minnesota. Golub discusses the construction of the ILLIAC computer, the work of Ralph Meager and David Wheeler on the ILLIAC design, British computer science, programming, and the early users of the ILLIAC at the University of Illinois.
- Wheeler received the Computer History Museum Fellow Award in 2003.