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Stephen Byram Furber is probably best known for his work at Acorn where he was one of the designers of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor.
He is the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.
He attended Manchester Grammar School
- In 1970 he represented the UK in the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hungary
- In 1974 he received a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, England
- In 1978 he was the Rolls-Royce Research Fellow in Aerodynamics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- In 1980 was awarded a Ph.D. in Aerodynamics by Cambridge
- From 1980 to 1990 he worked at Acorn Computers Ltd where he was a Hardware Designer and then Design Manager. He was a principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM microprocessor
- In 1990 he moved to the University of Manchester and established the Amulet research group
- In February 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society
- In 1998 he was a member fo the Working Group on Asynchronous Circuit Design (ACiD-WG)
- In 2002 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
- In 2002 he was Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry into microprocessor technology
- In 2003 he was a member of the EPSRC research cluster in biologically-inspired novel computation
- On 16 September 2004 he gave a speech on Hardware Implementations of Large-scale Neural Networks as part of the initiation activities of the Alan Turing Institute
He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Senior Member of the IEEE
He is on the Advisory Board of Theseus Logic, Inc.
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