Steve Furber

Steve Furber
Steve Furber
Born	Stephen Byram Furber (1953-03-21) 21 March 1953 (age 64) Manchester
Residence	Wilmslow, England.
Nationality	British
Fields	Neural Networks Networks on Chip Microprocessors Neuromorphic engineering
Institutions	University of Manchester University of Cambridge Acorn Computers
Alma mater	Manchester Grammar School University of Cambridge (BA 1974, PhD 1980)
Thesis	Is the Weis-Fogh principle exploitable in turbomachines? (1979)
Doctoral advisor	John Ffowcs Williams
Doctoral students	William Bainbridge Joy Bose Sergio Davies Chris Emmons Philip Endecott Tomaz Felicijan Francesco Galluppi Martin Grymel Daranee Hormdee Xin Jin Muhammad Khan Jianwei Liu Yijun Liu Henry Okoyo Eustace Painkras Nigel Paver Oleg Petlin James Patterson Alexander Rast Basabdatta Sen Tom Sharp Yebin Shi Jian Wu Shufan Yang Zongchuan Yu
Other notable students	Simon Segars (CEO of ARM)
Known for	Acorn Computers ARM architecture BBC Micro SpiNNaker Human Brain Project ARM System–on–Chip Architecture
Influences	Sophie Wilson Hermann Hauser James Lighthill John Conway
Notable awards	CBE (2008) FRS (2002) FREng, FIET, CITP, CEng Computer History Museum Fellow (2012) Lovelace Medal (2014) DFBCS (2014)
Website apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/sfurber manchester.ac.uk/research/steve.furber

Stephen Byram "Steve" Furber CBE, FRS, FREng (born 21 March 1953) is the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester and is probably best known for his work at Acorn Computers, where he was one of the designers of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor.

Furber was educated at Manchester Grammar School and represented the UK in the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hungary in 1970 and won a bronze medal. He went on to study the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at St John's College, Cambridge, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1974. In 1978, he was appointed the Rolls-Royce Research Fellow in Aerodynamics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and was awarded a PhD in 1980 on the fluid dynamics of the Weis-Fogh principle.

From 1980 to 1990, Furber worked at Acorn Computers where he was a Hardware Designer and then Design Manager. He was a principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM microprocessor. In August 1990 he moved to the University of Manchester to become the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering and established the Amulet research group.

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