Steve Furber

Steve Furber
CBE FRS FREng
Steve Furber CBE FRS FREng
	Furber in 2009
Born	Stephen Byram Furber; 21 March 1953 (age 71); Manchester, England
Education	Manchester Grammar School
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, MMath, PhD)
Known for	Acorn Computers; ARM architecture; BBC Micro; SpiNNaker; Human Brain Project; ARM System–on–Chip Architecture;
Spouse	Valerie Margaret Elliott (m. 1977)
Awards	Charles Stark Draper Prize (2022); Mullard Award (2016); DFBCS (2014); Lovelace Medal (2014); Pinkerton Lecture (2010); Millennium Technology Prize (2010); Faraday Medal (2007); Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2004);
	Scientific career
Fields	Neural Networks; Networks on Chip; Microprocessors;
Institutions	University of Manchester; University of Cambridge; Acorn Computers;
Thesis	Is the Weis-Fogh principle exploitable in turbomachines? (1979)
Doctoral advisor	John Ffowcs Williams
Notable students	Simon Segars
Website	apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/sfurber; manchester.ac.uk/research/steve.furber

Stephen Byram Furber CBE FRS FREng^[12] (born 21 March 1953)^[6] is a British computer scientist, mathematician and hardware engineer, and Emeritus ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK.^[13] After completing his education at the University of Cambridge (BA, MMath, PhD), he spent the 1980s at Acorn Computers, where he was a principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor.^[14] As of 2023^[update], over 250 billion ARM chips have been manufactured, powering much of the world's mobile computing and embedded systems, everything from sensors to smartphones to servers.^[15]^[16]^[17]^[8]

In 1990, he moved to Manchester to lead research into asynchronous circuits, low-power electronics^[18] and neural engineering, where the Spiking Neural Network Architecture (SpiNNaker) project is delivering a computer incorporating a million ARM processors optimised for computational neuroscience.^[2]^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Steve Furber publications indexed by Google Scholar
^ Steve Furber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Cite error: The named reference furberphd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Segars, Simon Anthony (1996). Low power microprocessor design (MSc thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 643624237. Copac 36604476.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Anon (2015). "Furber, Prof. Stephen Byram". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.43464. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Brown, David (1 February 2010). "A Conversation with Steve Furber". Queue. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
^ ^a ^b Steve Furber's ORCID 0000-0002-6524-3367
^ Furber, S. B.; Galluppi, F.; Temple, S.; Plana, L. A. (2014). "The SpiNNaker Project". Proceedings of the IEEE. 102 (5): 652–665. doi:10.1109/JPROC.2014.2304638. S2CID 25268038.
^ "The Human Brain Project SP 9: Neuromorphic Computing Platform" on YouTube
^ Furber, Stephen B. (2000). ARM system-on-chip architecture (2 ed.). Boston: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-67519-6. "The design of a general-purpose processor, in common with most engineering endeavours, requires careful consideration of many trade-offs and compromises"
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^ "Prof Steve Furber CBE FRS FREng FBCS FIET CITP CEng - The University of Manchester". research.manchester.ac.uk.
^ Lean, Thomas (22 October 2012). "Steve Furber: developing ARM with no people and no money". British Library. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
^ Anon (2023). "Arm is Everywhere Technology Matters: 250+ Billion Chips in Everything from Sensors to Smartphones to Servers". arm.com.
^ "Inside the numbers: 100 billion ARM-based chips". 27 February 2017.
^ "Enabling Mass IoT connectivity as Arm partners ship 100 billion chips". 27 February 2017.
^ Furber, Stephen B. (1989). VLSI RISC architecture and organization. New York: M. Dekker. ISBN 0-8247-8151-1.
^ Grier, D. A. (2014). "Steve Furber [Interviews]". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 36: 58–68. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2014.8. S2CID 28152764.
^ ARM and its Partners talk about reaching the 50 Billion chip milestone on YouTube
^ Steve Furber publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ National Life Stories, Professor Steve Furber Interviewed by Thomas Lean, British Library

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[googlescholar-2] Steve Furber publications indexed by Google Scholar

[mathgene-3] Steve Furber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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[segarsmsc-5] Segars, Simon Anthony (1996). Low power microprocessor design (MSc thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 643624237. Copac 36604476.

[whoswho-6] Anon (2015). "Furber, Prof. Stephen Byram". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.43464. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[acm-7] Brown, David (1 February 2010). "A Conversation with Steve Furber". Queue. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 7 March 2012.

[orcid-8] Steve Furber's ORCID 0000-0002-6524-3367

[spin-9] Furber, S. B.; Galluppi, F.; Temple, S.; Plana, L. A. (2014). "The SpiNNaker Project". Proceedings of the IEEE. 102 (5): 652–665. doi:10.1109/JPROC.2014.2304638. S2CID 25268038.

[hbj-10] "The Human Brain Project SP 9: Neuromorphic Computing Platform" on YouTube

[armsoc-11] Furber, Stephen B. (2000). ARM system-on-chip architecture (2 ed.). Boston: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-67519-6. "The design of a general-purpose processor, in common with most engineering endeavours, requires careful consideration of many trade-offs and compromises"

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[13] "Prof Steve Furber CBE FRS FREng FBCS FIET CITP CEng - The University of Manchester". research.manchester.ac.uk.

[web-14] Lean, Thomas (22 October 2012). "Steve Furber: developing ARM with no people and no money". British Library. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2014.

[250billion-15] Anon (2023). "Arm is Everywhere Technology Matters: 250+ Billion Chips in Everything from Sensors to Smartphones to Servers". arm.com.

[billion-16] "Inside the numbers: 100 billion ARM-based chips". 27 February 2017.

[segarsb-17] "Enabling Mass IoT connectivity as Arm partners ship 100 billion chips". 27 February 2017.

[vlsi-18] Furber, Stephen B. (1989). VLSI RISC architecture and organization. New York: M. Dekker. ISBN 0-8247-8151-1.

[19] Grier, D. A. (2014). "Steve Furber [Interviews]". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 36: 58–68. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2014.8. S2CID 28152764.

[fiftybillion-20] ARM and its Partners talk about reaching the 50 Billion chip milestone on YouTube

[scopus-21] Steve Furber publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)

[blib-22] National Life Stories, Professor Steve Furber Interviewed by Thomas Lean, British Library

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Steve Furber CBE FRS FREng
Furber in 2009
Born	Stephen Byram Furber (1953-03-21) 21 March 1953 (age 71)^[6] Manchester, England^[7]
Education	Manchester Grammar School
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, MMath, PhD)^[6]^[8]
Known for	Acorn Computers ARM architecture BBC Micro SpiNNaker^[9] Human Brain Project^[10] ARM System–on–Chip Architecture^[11]
Spouse	Valerie Margaret Elliott (m. 1977) ^[6]
Awards	Charles Stark Draper Prize (2022)^[1] Mullard Award (2016) DFBCS (2014) Lovelace Medal (2014) Pinkerton Lecture (2010) Millennium Technology Prize (2010) Faraday Medal (2007) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2004)
Scientific career
Fields	Neural Networks^[2] Networks on Chip^[2] Microprocessors^[2]
Institutions	University of Manchester University of Cambridge Acorn Computers
Thesis	Is the Weis-Fogh principle exploitable in turbomachines? (1979)
Doctoral advisor	John Ffowcs Williams^[3]^[4]
Notable students	Simon Segars^[5]

Website	apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/sfurber manchester.ac.uk/research/steve.furber