Not to be confused with Sophia Wilson or Sophie Tilson.
Sophie Wilson
CBE FRS FREng DistFBCS
Wilson in 2013
Born
June 1957 (age 66)[1][3]
Leeds, England[3]
Education
Selwyn College, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Known for
Acorn Computers
BBC Micro
ARM architecture[4]
BBC BASIC
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2009)
Computer History Museum Fellow (2012)[1]
Fellow of the Royal Society (2013)
Fellow of Selwyn College (2016)
Honorary Doctorate (2017)
Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (2020)[2]
Scientific career
Institutions
University of Cambridge
Broadcom Corporation
Acorn Computers
Website
www.sophie.org.uk
royalsociety.org/people/sophie-wilson-12544
Sophie Mary WilsonCBE FRS FREngDistFBCS[5][2] (born Roger Wilson; June 1957) is an English computer scientist, a co-designer of the Instruction Set for the ARM architecture.[6][7][8]
Wilson first designed a microcomputer during a break from studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She subsequently joined Acorn Computers and was instrumental in designing the BBC Microcomputer, including the BBC BASIC programming language.[9] She first began designing the ARM reduced instruction set computer (RISC) in 1983, which entered production two years later. It became popular in embedded systems and is now the most widely used processor architecture in smartphones. In 2011, she was listed in Maximum PC as number 8 in an article titled "The 15 Most Important Women in Tech History".[10] She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2019.
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^ ab"Sophie Wilson". BCS. 2020. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
^ ab"Oral History of Sophie Wilson 2012 Computer History Museum Fellow" (PDF). Archive.computerhistory.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
^"Sophie Wilson@Everything2.com". Archived from the original on 4 December 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
^"List of Fellows". Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
^"Award of Draper Prize". Broadcom. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
^"Sophie Wilson (Profile)". Computer History Museum. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
^"Sophie Wilson: ARM And How Making Things Simpler Made Them Faster & More Efficient". Hackaday. 8 May 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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^Bouman, Amber (1 March 2011). "The 15 Most Important Women in Tech History". Maximum PC. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
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