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Steve Furber
The engineer who co-designed the BBC Micro and the original ARM processor.
BBC Micro · ARM1
- Born
- 21 March 1953
- Birthplace
- United Kingdom
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Steve Furber
Steve Furber helped build an influential British home computer and a low-power processor architecture. His later research used large networks of processors to study brain-like computation.
Early life
Manchester
Attended Manchester Grammar School.
Cambridge
Studied mathematics and completed research in aerodynamics.
Career
- 1981
Acorn Computers
Joined the company after contributing to its early designs.
- 1985
ARM processor
Helped deliver the first working ARM chip.
- 1990
Manchester
Became professor of computer engineering.
- 2018
Neuromorphic computing
The million-core SpiNNaker machine entered operation at Manchester.
Contributions
BBC Micro
A computer central to Britain’s computer-literacy programme.
ARM1
A reduced-instruction-set processor developed with Sophie Wilson and colleagues.
SpiNNaker
A many-processor system for modelling neural activity.
Beyond computing
Mathematics
Won a bronze medal at the 1970 International Mathematical Olympiad.
Recognition
His engineering work received honours including a CBE.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Career and work — royalsociety.org ↗Photo: Peter Howkins. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
