Stephen Furber

Stephen Furber (born 1953) is a British computer scientist and one of the pioneers of the field of neuromorphic engineering. He led the team that designed and developed the SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) system, a massively parallel computer architecture inspired by the human brain. Furber's work has advanced the understanding and implementation of brain-inspired computing.

Known for his work in computer architecture. He co-designed the ARM microprocessor architecture, widely used in electronic devices. Furber led the SpiNNaker project for brain simulation and has made contributions to neural engineering, advancing the fields of computational neuroscience and neuromorphic systems.

Stephen Byram Furber is an English 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. After completing his education at the University of Cambridge, he spent the 1980s at Acorn Computers, where he was a principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. As of 2023, 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.