English computer scientist and academic

Steve Furber

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.

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1953

March 21

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537 Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.
630 Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
717 Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
867 An army of the Kingdom of Northumbria attempts to recapture York from the Great Heathen Army but is defeated in the battle of York.

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The world in 1953

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april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
april 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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Antonia Maury 1866–1952 American astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1866) Benito Juárez 1806–1872 Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th President of Mexico (born 1806) Brian Clough 1935–2004 English footballer and manager (died 2004) Chiney Ogwumike 1992– American basketball player Chris Candido 1972–2005 American wrestler (born 1971) Éric Rohmer 1920–2010 French director, screenwriter, and critic (born 1920) Hans-Dietrich Genscher 1927–2016 German soldier and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (died 2016) Hans Hofmann 1880–1966 German-American painter (born 1880) Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750 German organist and composer (born 1685)

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Alex Grey 1953– American visual artist and author Alex Lifeson 1953– Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Alister McGrath 1953– Irish priest, historian, and theologian Andy Partridge 1953– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer Angélica Aragón 1953– Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer Arielle Dombasle 1953– French-American actress and model Ben Bernanke 1953– American economist Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007 Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953) Ciarán Hinds 1953– Irish actor

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