Steve Furber

Quick Facts

Full Name	Steve Furber
Occupation	Computer Scientist
Date Of Birth	Mar 21, 1953(1953-03-21)
Age	71
Birthplace	Manchester
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Steve Furber Biography

Steve Furber is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on March 21, 1953 in Manchester, England, United Kingdom. Stephen Byram Furber CBE FRS FREng (born 21 March 1953) is a British computer scientist, mathematician, and hardware engineer. He is currently the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. After finishing his studies in the University of Cambridge (BA, MAth, PhD) He worked in the 80s working for Acorn Computers which was the chief creator of both the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. As of the year 2018, over 100 billion variations from the ARM processor are being manufactured which power a significant portion all of mobile computers devices and embedded systems.

He was born in the year 1990 and relocated in 1990 to Manchester where he conducts research into Asynchronous systems, low-power electronics and neural engineering. is the Spiking Neural Network Architecture (SpiNNaker) Project has developed computers that are based on millions of ARM processors optimized for the use of computational neuroscience.

In 2004 he was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. In 2014, he was made a Distinguished Fellow at the British Computer Society (DFBCS) recognising his contribution to the IT profession and industry. Furber’s nomination for the Royal Society reads:

Furber’s main research interests are in Neural Networks, Networks on Chip and Microprocessors. In 2003, Furber 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.

Following the conclusion the research for his PhD and the awarding to Acorn of the BBC contract to Acorn and Acorn, he officially joined the company. He worked as a hardware designer, and later Design Manager. The team was responsible for the design and production of BBC Micro and later, the Electron and that of the ARM microprocessor. In August of 1990, he transferred towards Manchester, the University of Manchester to become the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering and established the AMULET microprocessor research group.

Steve Furber Net Worth

Steve Furber is one of the richest Computer Scientist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steve Furber 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the course of the course of his PhD study in latter part of the 1970s, Furber was a volunteer basis with Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry in the fledgling Acorn Computers (originally the Cambridge Processor Unit) working on various projects, including an affluent microprocessor-based machine controller, as well as the Proton prototype of what would later become The BBC Micro, in support of Acorn’s tender to the BBC Computer Literacy Project.

Furber studied at Manchester Grammar School and represented the UK in the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hungary in 1970 , winning an Olympic bronze medal. He continued to study in the Mathematical Tripos as an undergraduate student at St John’s College, Cambridge and graduated with the Master of Arts (BA) and Master of Mathematics (MMath – Part III of the Mathematical Tripos) degrees. In 1978 the year he was named as a Rolls-Royce Research Fellow on aerodynamics in Emmanuel College, Cambridge and was granted the title of PhD in the year 1980 for his studies on the fluid dynamics of the Weisfogh principle which was directed by John Ffowcs Williams.

In February 1997, Furber was elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society. In 1998, he became a member of the European Working Group on Asynchronous Circuit Design (ACiD-WG). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2002 and was Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry into microprocessor technology.

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