Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Expect laws, graphs and references to Star Wars in this, the department's 9th annual Wheeler Lecture. It looks at the history of microprocessors, how we got to where we are now, and what constraints there are on the future. The lecture is given by Dr Sophie Wilson, an alumna of the department. She co-designed, with her colleague Steve Furber, the BBC Microcomputer, BBC BASIC and the Acorn Assembler. They then went on to design the ARM processor, which originally powered Acorn's computers, and is now the core of virtually every mobile phone and tablet in the world.
Expect laws, graphs and references to Star Wars in this, the department's 9th annual Wheeler Lecture. It looks at the history of microprocessors, how we got to where we are now, and what constraints there are on the future. The lecture is given by Dr Sophie Wilson, an alumna of the department. She co-designed, with her colleague Steve Furber, the BBC Microcomputer, BBC BASIC and the Acorn Assembler. They then went on to design the ARM processor, which originally powered Acorn's computers, and is now the core of virtually every mobile phone and tablet in the world.
