steve furber

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 School 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
When the Advanced Research and Development section of Acorn was spun off as ARM Ltd in 1990, he moved to the Victoria University of Manchester to become the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering 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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