# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-furber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:44:17.541Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-furber"
name: "Steve Furber"
slug: "steve-furber"
description: "Stephen Byram Furber is an English computer scientist, mathematician and hardware engineer, and Emeritus ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. After completing his education at the University of Cambridge, he spent the 1980s at Acorn Computers, where he was a principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. As of 2023, over 250 billion ARM chips have been manufactured, powering much of the world's mobile computing and embedded systems, everything from sensors to smartphones to servers."
tagline: "British computer scientist (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steve_Furber.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-03-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.31
  momentum:             0.08000000000000002
  historical:           10.12217866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/FurberSteve"
    handle:    "FurberSteve"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebfurber/"
    handle:    "stevebfurber"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/steve.furber"
sources:
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    title: "Фербер, Стивен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "ستيف فوربر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "ستيف فوربر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "استیو فوربر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AD_%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0"
    title: "স্টিভ ফারবার"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Furber"
    title: "Steve Furber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Furber"
    title: "Steve Furber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Furber"
    title: "Steve Furber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Furber"
    title: "Stephen Furber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC"
    title: "スティーブ・ファーバー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Furber"
    title: "Steve Furber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Furber"
    title: "Stephen Furber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92776"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump