Digital60 Celebrations: Kilburn Lecture by Prof Steve Furber

Steve Furber is the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He received his BA degree in Mathematics in 1974 and his PhD in Aerodynamics in 1980 from the University of Cambridge, England.

 

From 1980 to 1990 Steve worked in the hardware development group within the R&D department at Acorn Computers Ltd, and was a principal designer of the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. The latter went on to dominate the mobile electronics market and, with about 10 million sold every day, can be found in everything from MP3 players to mobile phones.