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Sophie Mary Wilson CBE FRS FREng DistFBCS (born Roger Wilson; June 1957) is an English computer scientist, a co-designer of the Instruction Set for the ARM architecture. Wilson first designed a microcomputer during a break from studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge.
26 Jun 2024 · Sophie Wilson was born in Leeds, England, in 1957. She began studying computer science at the University of Cambridge in 1975. In 1977, she developed an automated cow-feeder during her first summer vacation.
Sophie Wilson is a computer scientist who designed the Acorn Micro-Computer and the ARM microprocessor. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Computer History Museum, and works for Broadcom as Senior Technical Director.
Sophie Wilson designed one of the first British home-build microcomputers, the Acorn System 1 and was the genius behind much of Acorn's software. As a young student at Cambridge, her first embedded system was developed for a Harrogate company and was used by farmers to regulate cow feed.
Sophie Wilson designed the instruction set for the original ARM Processor (Acorn RISC Machine) in 1983-1985 for the Acorn Computers which she designed in the 70's,...
8 Mei 2018 · Learn how Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber designed the ARM architecture, a new approach to CPU design that made mobile computing possible. They did this by realizing that you could do more, and quicker, with less, using a reduced instruction set and a larger data bus width.
Sophie Wilson is a research fellow at Broadcom and a co-designer of the Acorn System 1, BBC Microcomputer and ARM processor. She has received many awards and honors for her contributions to digital technologies and computing.
