Steve Furber

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British computer scientist (born 1953)

United Kingdom AcademicsBorn 1953 · age 73

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Languages12

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Awards 13

2024IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award

2022Charles Stark Draper Prize

2016Mullard Award

2014Lovelace Medal

2013Computer Pioneer Award

2007Faraday Medal

2002Fellow of the Royal Society

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Computer History Museum Fellow

IEEE Fellow

Fellow of the British Computer Society

Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology

Connected to Steve 6

Richard FriendAlso won Faraday Medal

Karlheinz BrandenburgAlso won IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award Michael A. JacksonAlso won Lovelace Medal

Lawrence RobertsAlso won Charles Stark Draper Prize

Shankar BalasubramanianAlso won Mullard Award

Jean E. SammetAlso won Computer Pioneer Award

About this person

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.

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United Kingdom