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An Interview with Steve Furber

By Jason Fitzpatrick
Communications of the ACM, May 2011, Vol. 54 No. 5, Pages 34-39
10.1145/1941487.1941501
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University of Manchester's Steve Furber — Courtesy of Steve Furber

Steve Furber, designer of the seminal BBC Microcomputer System and the widely used ARM microprocessor, reflects on his career.

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Anonymous

May 05, 2011 12:22

Thank you for documenting this history. It would be fun to hear interviews with some of his colleagues

Anonymous

May 06, 2011 10:59

In 1983, for Christmas I got a BBC Micro as a present... Here I am 28 years later still developing s/w. Acorn then, was like the Apple of today.. I was proud to have a BBC Micro, it was like the Rolls Royce of 'home computers'

Anonymous

June 13, 2012 02:19

Regarding this sentence:

'performing the same amount of work as other 32-bit processors while consuming one-tenth the amount of electricity'

1. Can we have a reference for that please?
2. What is 'amount of electricity'? was it supposed to be 'amount of power'?

Thank you.

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