ESSDERC/ESSCIRC Workshop
cmos variability research in europe: from atomic scale to circuits and systems

Edinburgh International Conference Centre
19th September 2008

Steve Furber


Steve Furber is the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, a position he has held since 1990. Previously he worked in hardware development within the R&D department at Acorn Computers Ltd, and was a principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM RISC microprocessor. The ARM is now the world’s leading 32-bit embedded processor, with over ten billion having been shipped by ARM Ltd’s partners. Steve is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the BCS, the IET and the IEEE. He was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal in 2003, the IET Faraday Medal in 2007 and a CBE in 2008. He is supported by a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award.
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