Steve Furber

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Steve Furber

Stephen Byram Furber CBE , FRS , FREng (born March 21, 1953 in Manchester , England) is ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester . Better known he is for his work at Acorn from 1980 to 1990, where he met Sophie Wilson at the BBC Micro and the ARM -32-bit RISC - processor has worked.

Furber won a bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad as a student. He studied at Cambridge University (Emmanuel College), with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1973 and a doctorate in aerodynamics with John Ffowcs Williams in 1980. After his time at Acorn, he became a professor in Manchester in 1990.

Wilson and Furber developed the BBC microcomputer as part of a TV program - it has been sold over a million times and used in over 80 percent of schools in the UK. Your ARM RISC processor has been built into many consumer electronics devices and cell phones. It was manufactured over 30 billion times by 2012.

Currently (2012) he is working on the SpiNNaker project (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) in Manchester, which is supposed to simulate a small part of the human brain with one million ARM processors.

In 1999 he became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 2005 of IEEE . In 2002 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and received the Faraday Medal (IEE) . In 2008 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 2012 he became a Fellow of the Computer History Museum . In 2010 he received the Millennium Technology Prize of the Technical Academy of Finland for the ARM processor and in 2013 the Computer Pioneer Award . In 2014 he was awarded the Lovelace Medal .

He lives in Wilmslow , England.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Staff profile of Steve Furber at the University of Manchester
  2. ↑ SpiNNaker Homepage
  3. ^ Membership directory: Stephen B. Furber. Academia Europaea, accessed November 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Furber, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Furber, Stephen Byram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester