Beeb designer wins top award

Submitted by TAR Tom on Fri, 21/09/2007 - 10:15am. bbc | hacking

As reported on Drobe, Professor Steve Furber, the brains behind the BBC Micro and ARM architecture, has been awarded the Faraday medal, the most prestigious achievement award from the Institute of Engineering and Technology.
Since 1922, the Faraday award has been handed out once a year for notable accomplishments in engineering.

The BBC Micro was the defining computer that kick-started computing in the UK, as part of a campaign by the BBC to raise computing literacy.

Thanks to this, a generation grew up who were familiar with text interfaces, programming, and hacking together their own hardware. Want to upgrade your machine? Great - get out your soldering iron, and when you're done, write some code. How times have changed :-(

Follow these URLs to find more about the BBC Micro and the ARM architecture.

The BBC Micro series were hugely successful machines that easily kicked the arse of any other 8-bit platform. ARM remains one of the biggest UK computing success stories - even though Acorn sold the ARM business off to Intel. ARM chips power a huge array of PDAs, phones, and other ubiquitous gear.

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