Steve Furber
English computer scientist (born 1953)
Biography
Stephen Byram Furber (born 21 March 1953) 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 (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.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- University of Manchester
Notable works
- ARM architecture
Awards & honours (13)
- 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
- IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
Quick answers about Steve Furber
- How old is Steve Furber?
- Steve Furber is 73 years old (born March 21, 1953).
- When is Steve Furber's birthday?
- Steve Furber was born on March 21, 1953.
- Where was Steve Furber born?
- Steve Furber was born in Manchester.
- What is Steve Furber's zodiac sign?
- Steve Furber's zodiac sign is Aries.
- What is Steve Furber's nationality?
- Steve Furber is a citizen of United Kingdom.
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- Steve Furber is known as computer scientist, engineer, university teacher.
