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SUMMARY:Wheeler Lecture 2020: The Future of Microprocessors - Dr Sophie Wi
 lson
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CONTACT:Stewart Carswell
DESCRIPTION:The talk looks at the history of microprocessors\, how we got 
 to where we are now\, and what constraints there are on the future. There'
 ll be laws\, graphs and references to Star Wars...\n\n*About the speaker*\
 n\nSophie Wilson co-designed\, with her colleague Steve Furber\, the BBC M
 icrocomputer\, BBC BASIC and the Acorn Assembler.   They then went on to d
 esign the ARM processor\, which originally powered Acorn's computers\, and
  is now the core of virtually every mobile phone and tablet in the world 
 – 75 billion ARM-powered chips have been sold to date.\n\nSophie is a Br
 oadcom Fellow and Distinguished Engineer\, a Fellow of the Royal Society\,
  a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering\, a Fellow of the British Co
 mputer Society\, a Fellow of the Women’s Engineering Society and an hono
 rary Fellow of Selwyn College\, Cambridge. She has an honorary doctorate o
 f science from Cambridge University and a CBE.\n\n*Registration*\n\nThe ev
 ent is fully booked but we hope to make a recording available in due cours
 e "on our website":https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/wheeler-lecture-2020-fut
 ure-microprocessors.\n\n\n
LOCATION:Online
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