Steve Furber

1953 -

country of citizenship: United Kingdom

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Emmanuel College, The Manchester Grammar School, St John's College, University of Cambridge

occupation: computer scientist, engineer, university teacher

award received: Computer Pioneer Award, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Faraday Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Mullard Award, Computer History Museum fellow, Lovelace Medal, IEEE Fellow, Fellow of the British Computer Society, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Charles Stark Draper Prize

official website: www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/steve-furber(f354bf8d-3bef-446a-a561-038382a2583a).html

Stephen Byram Furber (born 21 March 1953) is a British 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 (BA, MMath, PhD), 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.In 1990, he moved to Manchester to lead research into asynchronous circuits, low-power electronics and neural engineering, where the Spiking Neural Network Architecture (SpiNNaker) project is delivering a computer incorporating a million ARM processors optimised for computational neuroscience. Source: Wikipedia (en)