Report on talk given by the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering
27 February 2008
The Future of Computer Technology, and its implications for the Computer Industry – a lecture by Professor Steve Furber, ICL Professor of Computer Engineering.
This is about the BCS talk in London on 12th February given by the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering at Manchester University.
ICL endowed this chair in 1968, at the time when the New Range was being designed. The first ICL Professor was Dai Edwards, and when he retired in 1987 Steve Furber was appointed to this professorship.
To find more, your editor went to this talk. It was an approachable presentation on the limits of current chip and computer technology, and then about some research into what future computing could learn from how biology delivers reliable systems on unreliable platforms. Click here for more about the lecture and the speaker – and there is also a link there for the full lecture writeup.
It is good to know that something of ICL continues, with a distinguished ICL Professor working at the forefront of computer research. There is no longer a direct connection with the company.
Steve Furber was honoured in the New Year’s Honours list – click here for the BBC News item about his achievements.
Steve is also one of the speakers at a meeting of the Computer Conservation Society on the BBC Micro and the Computer Literacy Project on 20th March – click here for details.
